On 6 August 1942 David Jacobs and Rebecca de Vries were married in Westerbork transit camp. David Jacobs, an excavation worker, was a son of Jacob Jacobs, assistant clerk-on-reduced-pay at the Rijkspostspaarbank, and of Rosalie Rodrigues. Rebecca de Vries, a seamstress, was a daughter of Samson de Vries, shopkeeper in Amsterdam, and Branca van der Bokke. Barend van der Bokke, an uncle of the bride, was a witness at the wedding ceremony and signed the marriage certificate.
Record of marriage certificates of the Westerbork municipality, currently at the archives of Gemeente Midden-Drenthe in Beilen
David Jacobs lived, among other places, in a barrack in the town Leonberg near Stuttgart, where a group of Dutch men were forced to work for the Messerschmitt company. One of his former roommates recalls that David became ill and was deported with an ambulance transport.
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See for additional information:
Joachim Baur/Birgit Wörner Konzentrationslager und Zwangsarbeit in Leonberg, Stadtarchiv Leonberg, 2001