Biography

About Jansje Polak-Haamerslag

Jansje Haamerslag was a daughter of David Haamerslag and Elisabeth Gans. She married in Amsterdam on 10 June 1914 to Emanuel Polak, son of Salomon Polak and Leentje van Loggem.
Her husband has survived the Holocaust.
Jansje was born in a family of in total six children, of whom Karel, Sara and Juda (who was married to Leentje Nikkelsberg), have passed away before the war. Futher then Jansje herself, Roosje and Hanna, who did not survive the Holocaust.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Davide Haamerslag (Hamerslag) and website www.wiewaswie.nl.