Leendert Porcelijn

Leendert Porcelijn, the 4th of the seven children of Salomon Porcelijn and Rika Augurk, was born in Amsterdam on 12 July 1909. His profession was musician: he played the saxophone and the drums. On 1 November 1939 he married Matthea Bolle in Amsterdam, a daughter of Levie Bolle and Klaartje Kornalijnslijper. Matthea was born in Amsterdam on 16 August 1912 and till her marriage she worked as a cost…

Leendert Porcelijn speelde saxofoon en drum.

Bron: Esther Göbel – Een hemel zonder vogels. Het aangrijpende levensverhaal van Janny Moffie-Bolle

In addition, a Jokos file (number 6593) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

According to a survivor, Leendert Porcelijn perished in January 1944 in Jawiszowice. This differs from the official date of death of 29 February 1944 as determined by the Dutch Ministry of Justice after the war. For the time being, the website joodsmonument.nl list only the dates of death, as published at the time in the "Nederlandse Staatscourant" (Dutch Government Gazette) by the Ministry of Jus…

The transport of 19 October 1943 (Westerbork-Auschwitz), which had departed the day before by train from Camp Vught, comprised 1007 deportees, of which the majority of the men selected on arrival, who were considered fit for work, were put to work in Warsaw after 4 weeks in "quarantine", and a smaller part was sent to the coal mines at Jawischowitz, while nothing more was heard of the women after …