Judik Waagenaar

Judik Waagenaar joined the Hollandia-Kattenburg textile factory in Amsterdam on 10 January 1936. On Wednesday, 11 November 1942, around 4:30 PM, Willy Lages conducted the Sicherheitspolizei raid on the Hollandia factories. All exits were blocked and the Jewish staff members were taken away that evening. Photographs of all workers taken away that evening, as well as those deported previously, appea…

Aäron Waagenaar was the widower of Sara Levenson, who died in 1917. Her brother Wolf Levenson was married to a sister of Aäron Waagenaar. One child that was still living at home survived the war, as did two grandchildren. Another child of Aäron Waagenaar’s had a mixed marriage and lived at a different address. In the large-scale raid carried out on 20 June 1943, this family just managed to escape …