Branca Menist-van Rheenen

Meijer Menist, a son of Jacob Meijer Menist and Sippora van Gelderen, was born in Amsterdam on 17 September 1888. He married Branca van Rheen on 15 April 1912, a daughter of Simon van Rheenen and Hanna Rozette. Branca was born in Amsterdam on 15 July 1887. The Menist-van Rheenen couple had two children, viz. Simon in 1914 and Sippora in 1917.

Around the time of his marriage in 1912, Meijer Menist …

In addition, a Jokos file (number 51586) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

According to a list with shops of Jewish owners, compiled by the Amsterdam police in 1940, this family had a shop for used radio accessories, address: Waterlooplein 32 in Amsterdam.
Abstracts of the police archives which a…