Eva Delden was a daughter of Jacob Delden and Leentje Ossedrijver. She was the seventh of the ten children of the family, where her father Jacob Delden passed away on 17 December 1927 at the age of 49. She was born on 19 April 1910 in Amsterdam and lived from October 1929 in the Ben Viljoenstraat7 2nd floor in Amsterdam-East, together with her mother and her other still at home living siblings.
On 29 May 1941, Eva married at the age of 31 the widower of Helena Lakmaker, the 51-year old Hartog Wijnschenk, who was born on 1 February 1890 in Amsterdam. Eva then moved in with him at Amstellaan 62 1st floor. From his first marriage, Hartog had four children; three of them and their families, were killed during the Shoah and one passed away still before the war in 1938.
On 8 November 1942 another son was born from the wedlock of Eva and Hartog: Arnold Wijnschenk. However, Hartog never has seen his fifth child; he was, after arrest in Amsterdam on 12 October 1942 and imprisonment at the Amstelveenseweg there, carried off to Westerbork, where he arrived the 14th of October.
Notes from 14 and 15 October 1942 at the Jewish Council registration card of Hartog Wijnschenk show, that there has been made a request by Eva to get her husband “home”, as she was 8 months pregnant and a delivery was imminent. But already on 15 October came the decision that “the coming of man was not possible” and on 16 October 1942 Hartog Wijnschenk was deported from Westerbork to camps in the East, where he eventually ended up as a forced labourer in the steel factory of Malapane (Poland) and where he lost his life on 28 February 1943. He never saw his is little son Arnold Wijnschenk, who was born on 8 November 1942.
At the other hand, Eva’s mother Leentje Ossedrijver had moved in already on 25 April 1942 from the Ben Viljoenstraat with Eva and Hartog at Amstellaan 62 1st floor, to be of assistance to her pregnant daughter. But on 25 April 1943, when little Arnold almost was 5 months old, Eva and Arnold and mother Leentje left from the Amstellaan for the Christiaan de Wetstraat 33 1st floor in Amsterdam-East, and moved in there with brother and son Samuel Delden, who there lived with his wife Sara Loos and three young children.
On 14 May 1943, a decree was issued by Rauter, in which as of 21 May 1943, Jews were prohibited from staying in Amsterdam, except for those Jews who were in possession of a Sperre stamp. As a result, Leentje Delden Ossedrijver, her daughter Eva Wijnschenk-Delden, her newborn grandson Arnold Wijnschenk, as well as Leentje's son Samuel Delden with his wife Sara Loos and their children Rebecca, Lena and Jacob Delden were summoned to report at the Polderweg on 20 May from where they would be carried off to Westerbork. On 25 May they were all deported to Sobibor and on arrival on 28 May 1943 they were immediately murdered in the gas chambers there.
Sources include the City Archive of Amserdam, family registration cards of Jacob Delden, archive cards of Leentje Ossedrijver, Eva Delden and Hartog Wijnschenk; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Hartog Wijnschenk, Eva Wijnschenk-Delden and Arnold Wijnschenk, Leentje Delden Ossedrijver, Samuel Delden, Sara Delden-Loos and the website Het Geheugen van Ooost/raid 20 May 1943.