Heintje Polak was a daughter of Soesman Simon Polak and Sara Hartog Beekman. She married 10 September 1884 in Amsterdam to Hijman Erwteman, a son of Simon Erwteman and Schoontje Hijman Groen. The couple had six children: Schoontje (who passed away in Antwerp on 3 June 1945 as spouse of Hijman Tailleur), Soesman, Simon, Jetje, Juda and Hartog.
Heintje's spouse Hijman Erwteman passed away in February 1936 and was interred in the Jewish Cemtetery in Diemen.
City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Hijman Erwteman, website www.wiewaswie.nl and Akevoth/Mokum/Burial Permits.
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