Biography

About Sara Park

Sara Park was a daughter of Emanuel Joseph Park and Jetje van Leeuwen. She was unmarried and lived with her parents since 18 June 1940 at the address Zwart Janstraat 43 in Rotterdam. Previous Rotterdam addresses were Boschlaan 7b and Lijnbaanstraat 12. Her sister Hester was already married in 1917 and resided not anymore at her parental address.

Sara Park was deported from Camp Westerbork to Auschwitz on 12 October 1942, together with her father Emanuel Joseph Park and both have been killed immediately upon arrival there on 15 October 1942. Her mother Jetje van Leeuwen passed away in Rotterdam on 30 July 1942 and has been interred in the Jewish Cemetery Toepad in Rotterdam.

City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Emanuel Joseph Park; website www.wiewaswie.nl and the file cabinet of the Jewish Archive, cards of Sara Park and Emanuel Joseph Park.

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