Elisabeth David, born 14 August 1893 in Rotterdam, was a daughter of Wolf David and Antonetta Andriessen. She married on 6 January 1915 in Rotterdam Isidore de Wind, dealer in irregular merchandise, who was born in Den Haag on 18 July 1886 as son of Levy de Wind and Hanna de Jong. The couple had one daughter, namely Hanna, who was born on 25 March 1916 in Amsterdam.
On 2 December 1915, the De Wind-David couple left for Amsterdam, where they moved into a house at Nieuwe Amstelstraat 21, and where Isidore earned his living as commercial traveller. Re-locations followed among others to Ferdinand Bolstraat 114, Van der Helstplein 9 and in 1930 to Damstraat 34. However, the marriage did not last and on 9 May 1930 the dissolution of the marriage followed in Rotterdam. Their daughter Hanna de Wind passed away in Amsterdam on 24 may 1941.
At the age of 44, Isidore de Wind married again in Rotterdam the 46-year old Henriette Polak on 20 August 1930, a daughter of Jacobus Polak and Vrouwtje de Jong. She was born on 27 June 1884. Isidore, yet dealer in electric articles, passed away in Den Haag on 10 June 1939. His widow was deported from her address Spoorsingel 74b in Rotterdam via Westerbork to Auschwitz, where she has been killed immediately in the gas chambers there on arrival on 19 October 1942.
Also Elizabeth David got remarried; on 12 March 1931 she wed Jacob Oppenheijm in Amsterdam, who was born on 31 July 1890 as son of Jacob Oppenheijm and Rebekka de Vries, but who was previously married and divorced from Mietje Vrachtdoender. Elizabeth and Jacob lived in Rotterdam, but moved in 1940 to Plantage Franschelaan in Amsterdam and in 1941 to Nieuwe Prinsengracht 12 1st floor. As far as know, Elizabeth and Jacob had no offspring.
During the last days of May 1943, large raids were held by the Germans in Amsterdam, whereby Elizabeth Oppenheijm-David was carried off to Westerbork and where she was accommodated in barrack 64 on 29 May 1943. What happened at that time to her husband Jacob Oppenheijm or of which offense he would have been accused is not known, but it was known that both were put on transport to Sobibor on 8 June 1943; Elizabeth David as prisoner with the so-called “normal-transport” but Jacob as “penal case” on “penal transport”, in the end to the same destination.
The transport of 8 June 1943 included a total of 3017 deportees, including the so-called child transport from Vught, which also went via Westerbork to Sobibor. On arrival there on 11 June 1943, all were immediately killed in the gas chambers of Sobibor, including Elizabeth Oppenheijm-David and Jacob Oppenheijm. There were no survivors.
Sources included the City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration cares of Isidore de Wind; City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Isidore de Wind, archive cards of Elizabeth David, Hanna de Wind and Jacob Oppenheijm, the certificate of death, year 1941-register 7-nr. 137 for Hanna de Vries-de Wind; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Jacob Oppenheijm, Elizabeth Oppenheijm-David, Jesja de Vries and Henriette de Wind-Polak; the Wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland and additions of visitors of the website.