Biography Jacob Lissing

Jacob Lissing was born  in Amsterdam in 1905 as the youngest child of Joseph Lissing and Judith de Wolff. He had an older sister, Catharina, who later married Louis Wagenhuis. Jacob Lissing himself married the German-born Elfriede (Friedel) Richarz in 1931. They had two daughters, born in 1935 and 1938.
Jacob Lissing worked as a fabric buyer at Modehuis Gerzon. After the dismissal of all Jewish employees, he was fired on 31 may 1942. Subsequently, he joined a tailor in the Amsterdam Lootsstraat.
Although most of the people the family name of Lissing were deported during the war, Jacob Lissing was protected against this by his mixed marriage. He and his wife gave way to people in hiding and were betrayed by a neighbor in early 1944. Although initially employed for forced labour at Schiphol Airport, he was later deported to Camp Westerbork and from there on (March 23, 1944) to Auschwitz. He was transferred to the Lieberose labor camp, part of Sachsenhausen on October 24 of that year. His name does not appear on the final set of transport lists from Sachsenhausen, during the evacuation of that camp (February 1945). He probably died afterwards, possibly during one of the so-called death marches. His wife and two daughters survived the war and were (only) officially informed about his death in 1952.