Biography

About Jacob de Goede.

Jacob de Goede, confidential clerk, was a son of Soesman de Goede and Elisabeth Polak. He married Roosje de Jong in Amsterdam on 21 September 1939, a daughter of Marcus Salomon de Jong and Rachel Koen. Jacob's parents passed away already before the war; his wife Roosje and little daughter Elisabeth Mary, born November 1940, have survived the Holocaust.

In 1907, Jacob de Goede had a sister Bertha, who, however, died already in one month. Another sister, Marie, born in 1912 and married in 1934 to Salomon Engelsman from Amsterdam, passed away on 9 October 1940 and has been interred two days later in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. Jacob self arrived in transit camp Westerbork early October 1942, where he stayed several months in barack 61. Eventually he has been deported from there to Auschwitz on 16 February 1943 where he was killed upon arrival there on 19 February 1943.

City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Jacob de Goede, Rachel de Jong and Marie de Goede, family registration card of Soesman de Goede, website Akevoth/Mokum/Burial permits and the File Cabinet of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, record of Jacob de Goede.