Biography

About Jansje Polak-de Hartogh

Jansje de Hartogh was a daughter of Joel Nathan de Hartogh and Saartje van der Horst, a family with eight children, of whom two children of this family have died already as babies. The others were Jansje herself, Salomon, Nathan (both already died before the war), Rebekka, Judith and Grietje.
Jansje married in Amsterdam on 26 July 1879 to Salomon Kan, but they divorced in Amsterdam on 24 February 1917. With Salomon, Jansje had a son in 1901: Elie.
Jansje remarried on 29 April 1930 to Hijman Polak, aged 63, son of Alexander Hijman Polak and Aaltje Bross. Hijman however passed away on 17 June 1936 and was interred at the Jewish Cemetery of Diemen on 17 June 1936.
Cityh Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Jansje de Hartogh, websites www.wiewaswie.nl and Akevoth/Mokum/Burial Permits.

Jansje de Hartogh was a kind of interior upholsterer and before the war, somewhere in the years of the "twenties", she has fully decorated the Tuschinsky theatre in Amsterdam, including the lamps. Obviously, she had also connections with Abraham Tuschinski.
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