Lea van Straten-Mendelson

We have been unable to determine whether one or more members of this family survived the war. While their names do not appear on the lists of survivors, we have not been able to trace them in In Memoriam either. They are therefore labeled as 'surviving' and their names are not listed.

In addition, a Jokos file (number 2630) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject …

Born in Amsterdam on 20 August 1908, the son of Isaac and Rosette van Straten, Arnold van Straten worked as an office clerk after gaining his diploma from a Hogere Burgerschool, and later became a commercial agent. He married Lea Mendelson, the daughter of a tailor, born on 2 August 1907, in 1937.  The young couple set up home in a modern flat at Roerstraat 101 II. A son Isaac was born in 1938.

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