Biography

About Roosje Polak-Pampel

Roosje Pampel was a daughter of Mozes Pampel and Saartje Digtmaker. She married 25 July 1907 in Amsterdam to Benjamin Polak, a son of Meijer Polak and Clara Canes. The couple had two already married daughters: Clara and Sara. They too were killed during the Holocaust.

Roosje was born in a family with ten children. One baby brother and a baby sister have died at a very young age and her brother Abraham died in December 1941 in Amsterdam and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. Her other sisters, namely Betje, Schoontje, Rachel, Klara, Esther and Eva have been killed during the Holocaust.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Mozes Pampel, archive card of Saartje Digtmaker, archive card of Benjamin Polak and website www.wiewaswie.nl.