Marcus Wagenhuizen, a son of Jacob Wagenhuizen and Engelina Soesan, married 1 February 1911 in Amsterdam Elisabeth Leger, a daughter of Mozes Leger and Jetje Engers.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Marcus Wagenhuizen and website www.wiewaswie.nl.
Marcus Wagenhuizen and his wife Elisabeth Leger arrived in Westerbork in September 1942. They were almost immediately send through to the East. At the last moment Marcus Wagenhuizen wrote a letter to their daughter Engelina Schellevis-Wagenhuizen who was still living in The Hague. He threw the letter from the departing train. In the beginning of 1944 Engelina Schellevis-Wagenhuizen herself was sent to Auschwitz.
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