Olga van Beek-Bock was separated from her husband Jacob van Beek. After a difficult journey from Vienna, she arrived in Amsterdam. In 1942 she was picked up on the street because her Jewish star was not sewn but pinned on. This led to an extra warning in the following week’s edition of Het Joodsche Weekblad. Olga Bock was held in the prison on Amstelveenseweg in Amsterdam for some time. She was sent to Westerbork on a penal transport and three days later was transported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered on arrival.
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Olga van Beek-Bock’s life story was told by her only daughter, who wrote a book about her - until then - unknown mother:
E. van Beek, Twee vrouwen en een jas (Haasbeek 1994).