Biography

About Heintje Roeg

Heintje Roeg was a daughter of Nathan Roeg and Margaretha Polak. She married Meijer van West on 1 December 1904 in Amsterdam, a son of Manuel van West and Klara Wurms. The couple had three children, of whom two have died in infancy. (both 2 yrs old). Only their daughter Clara just reached the age of 36 when she was killed in Auschwitz.

Meijer van West however passed away on 8 August 1933 in Amsterdam, aged 55, and was interred two days later in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.  Meijer's widow Heintje Roeg remarried 14 August 1935 the widower of Rebecca Blog, Jacob de Wolf, who had already seven children from his first marriage.

City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Meijer van West, archive cards of Heintje Roeg and Jacob de Wolf.