Hartog Wijnschenk, a son of Aaron Wijnschenk and Leentje Korper, was born on 1 February 1890 in Amsterdam. He was a fishmonger by trade and he married on 1 March 1911 in Amsterdam Helena Lakmaker, who was born there on 9 September 1889 as a daughter of Abraham Lakmaker and Rachel Beesemer. The couple had four children, namely Rachel, Aäron, Abraham and Leentje, of whom Aäron has died already before toe war, on 14 April 1938. He was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
The Wijnschenk family lived at various addresses in Amsterdam, but per 1 May 1939, Hartog and Helena lived at Biesboschstraat 54, where Helena Wijnschenk-Lakmaker passed away on 9 September 1939. She too has been interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
After the funeral of Helena, Hartog Wijnschenk moved in with his son-in-law Izaak Pierotto on 19 September 1939, who was married to his daughter Leentje and who lived at Boterdiepstraat 14 1st floor in Amsterdam-South. His other children, Rachel land Abraham were both already married and lived with their families at other addresses. All were killed during the Shoah.
On 29 May 1941 Hartog Wijnschenk, at the age of 51, remarried the 31-year old Eva Delden. She moved in with Hartog Wijnschenk, who then lived at Amstellaan 62 1st floor. From that wedlock, a son was born on 8 November 1942: Arnold Wijnschenk. However, Hartog never have seen nor known his fifth chld; on 12 October 1942, after his arrest in Amsterdam and after imprisonment there at the Amstelveenseweg , he was carried off to Westerbork.
Notes of 14 and 15 October 1942 on the Jewisch Council registration card of Hartog Wijnschenk show that Eva has made a request, to get her husband Hartog “home”, because she was eight months pregnant and a deliverey was imminent. But on 15 October there was already decided that “coming of man was not possible” and on 16 October 1942, Hartog Wijnschenk was deported from Westerbork to the East. He never saw his little son Arnold, who was born on 8 November 1942.
The deportation transport of 16 October 1942 has made a stop in Kozel, located ±80 km west from Auschwitz, where 570 boys and men between 15 and 50 year of age were forced to leave the train; they were deployed as forced labourers in the surrounding labour camps in Upper Silesia. Hartog Wijnschenk belonged to that group and he ended up in the steel factory in Malapane (nowadays named Ozimek), where eventually he has lost his life on 28 February 1943.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Hartog Wijnschenk, archive cards of Hartog Wijnschenk and Eva Delden; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Hartog Wijnschenk and Eva Wijnschenk-Delden and the Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.