Jacob Speijer

Jacob Speijer was the eldest son of Bernar Speijer and Marianna à Catan and was born on 1 September 1920 in Amsterdam. His parents were married in August 1919 and they then lived at Zwanenburgerstraat 45. During the years untill 1937 Jacob regularly had a new brother or sister; in the end 10, of whom one little brother died at the age of 1 year. Also his mother died at home in Amsterdam in 1942 bu…

Jacob Speijer had an illegal slaughterhouse.  In 1941 he was arrested with two others and a trial was held. Photo's of that trial can be seen here: Photo's from the photo archive of the City Archive of Amsterdam

In addition, Jokos files (numbers 15687, 50984, 50273) on this family or other family members are at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

The Jokos files reveal that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 2677/5615).

Sunday 20 June 1943: in the southern and eastern part of Amsterdam a big raid has taken place on the last remaining Jews in the city. Germans as well as the Amsterdam police blocked all streets, went into houses to bring the Jews to the gathering places.

At this raid, a large part of the remaining Jews of Amsterdam-East and South were made “ready to march” (marschfertig). The Germans boasted about…