Isak Elkan van Polen

Isak Elkan van Polen was the eldest of the two sons of Izak van Polen and Eva van Berg. He was born in Amsterdam on 22 July 1905. After 6 years of primary school, Izak Elkan completed a 3-year course at a business school, became an office clerk in a paper trade and later a traveling salesman and wholesaler of paper products.

He was also approved for the National Militia; he was conscripted into th…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 4227) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 9569/8068).

Schutzhaft (preventive detention) was the term in the Third Reich for the arrest, without a court decision, and the detention in concentration camps of persons who were unwelcome to the National Socialist regime because of their (left-wing) political conviction, religion, orientation or origin, such as Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Sinti and Roma, antisocials and homosexuals. The Schutzhäftlinge were…

According to the Death Index (Sterbebücher) of Auschwitz, Isak Elkan van Polen died there on 5 September 1942. This date differs rather much from the official date of death of 30 September 1942 as established after the war by the Dutch Ministery of Justice.  For the time being, the website joodsmonument.nl only lists the dates of death, as published at the time in the Dutch State Gazette by the Mi…