Bloeme Polak-Kijzer

Bloeme Kijser, widow of S. Polak, died on 12 June 1943 in Westerbork transit camp and she was cremated on 15 June 1943. The urn with her ashes was placed on the Jewish cemetry in Muiderberg in row 6, grave number 193.
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, inv. …

Bloeme was a daughter of cigar maker Jacob Meijer Keijzer of Amsterdam, and his wife Roosjie Samuel Kijzer. Her parents married in Amsterdam in 1856 and went to America. She was born in the city of Philadelphia, USA on 03 July 1867.

Bloeme was the sister of Meijer, Abraham, Elisabeth, and Matilda Kijzer. She returned to Amsterdam where she married diamond cutter Isaac Polak, the son of Mozes Polak…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 4228) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.