Jenny Benninga-Jansen

Jenny Jansen, spouse of Simon Benninga, died on 13 May 1943 in Westerbork transit camp and she was cremated on 14 May 1943. The urn with her ashes was placed on the Jewish cemetry in Diemen on field U, row 8, grave nr. 11.
Register van joden die in het kamp Westerbork zijn gecremeerd, 1943-1944; archief van de gemeente Westerbork, opgenomen in het archief van de gemeente Midden-Drenthe te Beilen, …

On Saturday, 11 April 1942, at 7.00 PM, ten Jewish residents of Leeuwarden were arrested in retaliation for removing the sign 'No Jews allowed' from a public bench in the Vossepark. They were sent to the camp at Amersfoort. Simon Benninga was among them. He was married. He and his wife lived at 38 Transvaalstraat in Leeuwarden.
S. de Jong, Joods leven in de Friese hoofdstad 1920-1945. Voltooid ver…