Jacob Michelsohn grain controller by trade and born in Bausk (Russia), was a son of Leib (Levie) Michelsohn and Jette Horowitz. He arrived in Rotterdam in 1906 and was registered at Lijnbaanstraat 28. After having lived at another four addresses, Jacbob left in September 1911 for Amsterdam Blasiusstraat 47 but returned already in Rotterdam after about five weeks, where he married Malia Hartog from Gestel 18 October 1911, a daughter of Levie Hartog and Schoontje Zwarentstein. 1 August 1912 they had a newborn daughter named Jette.
Jacob Michelsohn and his wife Malia lived for a long time at Stationsstraat 89 c in Rotterdam. However, 14 November 1933 Malia Hartog passed away and she was interred in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad in Rotterdam. In October 1934 Jacob Michelsohn, widower, moved to Vijverhofstraat 79 b and after having lived in at Mathenesser weg 92 a and at Diergaardelaan 72 a, he moved 8 August 1940 to Zwaanshals 376 b, where he lived in with his daughter Jette and his son-in-law Hartog Swaluw.
27 March Jacob Michelsohn passed away too , age 74 and the funeral records at the Jewish cemetery Toepad in Rotterdam reveal that Jacob Michelson was buried there.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Jacob Michelsohn; website www.wiewaswie.nl, marriage Jacob Michelsohn and Malia Hartog; www.akevoth.org/hetstenenarchief, tombstones of Jacob Michelsohn en Malia Michelsohn-Hartog
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