Azor Boeki, son of Isaac Boeki (1866-1900) and Leentje Presburg (1866-1929), married 9 February 1916 in Rotterdam the non-Jewish Hendrika Kulman, a daugter of Lucas Wolfganugs Frederik Wilhelm Kulman and Jacoba Eshuijs. 11 August 1916, their only daughter Leentje was born.
Azor’s parents had five children in total, of whom the first born Jacob died in January 1889, only 2 months old; also the youngest baby-daughter Sara died in February 1899, just six months old. Then there were Wolf Isaac in 1890, again a Jacob in 1892 and Azor himself in 1894.
Azor’s father Isaac Boeki passed away 13 October 1900; his widow Leentje Presburg remarried 12 July 1905 the non-Jewish Antonius Johannes Veerwijen, a son of Christiaan Hubertus Verwijen en Julia Hendrika Boekelman. Leentje previously had given birth to a stillborn daughter on 11 January 1903 of whom no name of the father was mentioned in the certificate of death.
Azor’s brother Jacob, born 23 March 1892, married 23 December 1914 in Rotterdam Leentje Berkelouw, a daughter of Elias Berkelouw and Hanna de Bok. Jacob and Leentje had three children, namely Leentje, Hanna and Isaac. Of Jacob’s family only Isaac survived the Holocaust. All others were killed in Sobibor.
Wolf Isaac Boeki, brother of Azor Boeki, who was born 21 February 1890, married in Anderlecht 24 June 1914 Judith Stad from Antwerp and had with her four children: Sara, Isaac , Joël and Willy Most likely the family survived the Holocaust. They have lived among others in Antwerp, Paris, Den Haag, Brussels.
Azor’s daughter Leentje Boeki married 10 February 1937 in Rotterdam Joseph de Rooij and 27 March 1942 his grandson Mozes Hennij de Rooij was born. His daughter, son-in-law and grandson, who lived at Noorder Kanaalweg C8 in Rotterdam, were deported 4 May 1943 from Westerbork to Sobibor and on arrival there 7 May 1943 immediately killed.
Azor’s spouse Hendrika Kulman died in Rotterdam at age 39 on 27 December 1937. His daughter Leentje has left her parental home already in February 1937 and was married to Joseph de Rooij. Azor Boeki then lived as a widower since 11 July 1938 at Hugo de Grootstraat 112a in Rotterdam.
The nazi’s started deportations in Rotterdam per 30 July 1942 and 22 April 1943, the final dozen Jews from the South Holland province, including members of the Rotterdam office of the Jewish Council had to report in Vught. Since then, there were only mixed married and Sefardic Jews in Rotterdam, who all were deported in the summer of 1943.
It is not known how Azor Boeki has been fared since July 1938 and what happened to him in the first years of the war. Perhaps he went into hiding and after treason arrested or picked up in the streets and deported to Westerbork. But it is certain that Azor Boeki, as a “penal case” was put on transport 1 June 1943 from Westerbork to Sobibor with more than 3000 other deportees and on arrival there 4 June 1943 immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cards of Isaac Boeki, Azor Boeki, Jacob Boeki and Joseph de Rooij; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, family registration card of Wolf Isaac Boeki; De Jodenvervolging in Rotterdam; transportlist of 1 June from Westerbork to Sobibor from the book Extermination Camp Sobibor by Jules Schelvis, 2nd edition 1994 by De Bataafse Leeuw; list of Jew-transports from the Netherlands.