Jonas Simon Okker, born 27 October 1862 and diamond polisher from Amsterdam, was a son of Simon Marcus Okker and Dina Grewel. He married 24 May 1893 in Amsterdam to Henriëtte Gobes, who was born 25 November 1869 in Amsterdam as daughter of Salomon Gobes and Grietje Content. In 1894, the couple had a son named Sigfried.
Jonas Okker was the youngest in a family with five children. His brothers, Aaron, Marcus and Hartog have passed in the end of the 19th or in the first quarter of the 20th century, just as he him self; his little brother Alexander died already in childhood, at the age of 2.
Henriëtte Gobes was born into a family with nine children; Henriëtte was the eldest. She was followed by Lodewijk in 1870, Emilie in 1872, Jeanette in 1875, Machiel in 1876, Anna in 1878, Estella in 1879, Nathan in 1880 and Jacobus in 1883. Of Emilie and Jacobus nothing else is known. All other children were killed during the Shoah.
After their marriage, the Jonas Okker couple inhabited many addresses in Amsterdam. In April 1895 they lived at Nieuwe Keizersgracht 3 and per 20 April 1901 the moved to Plantage Muidergracht 57 in Amsterdam. When the family lived in Kazernestraat 20 1st floor already since March 1909, Jonas Okker passed away there on 7 September 1926. He was interred 8 September in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg.
After the passing of her husband, Henriëtte Okker-Gobes moved in with her brother Lodewijk in January 1927 at Plantage Middenlaan 27 and 35 and afterwards still on many other addresses in Amsterdam. Her last known address in Amsterdam was with “Pension Van Leeuwen-Braaf” in Johannes Verhulstsraat 166 upper house.
On 9 February 1943, the then 73-year old Henriëtte Gobes was carried off from her address at Pension Van Leeuwen_Braaf to Westerbork and ended up there in barrack 84, a residential barrack for old people. She has been deported to Auschwitz on 16 February and on arrival there on 19 February 1943 immediately killed.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, Population Registry, copied volumes 1892-1920/Simon Marcus Okker and of Salomon Gobes; family registration cards of Jonas Simon Okker, Sigfried Okker and the residence card of Johannes Verhulststraat upper house in Amsterdam; website wiewaswie.nl/marriage Jonas Okker/Henriëtte Gobes and the death announcement (Central Bureau of Genealogy) of Jonas Okker; website Akevoth/Burial Permits/Jonas Okker; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Henriëtte Okker Gobes.