Philip Rodrigues Garcia, a son of David Haim Rodrigues Garcia and Ribca Morpurgo, married 19 May 1937 in Amsterdam to Sara Vieyra, a daughter of Joseph Vieyra and Vrouwtje de Rosa.
In 1939 they had a son, who has survived the Holocaust.
Philip Rodrigues Garcia was born in a family with seven children. Three of them have died at very young ages. His brother Elias has probably survived the war but not his siblings Herman and Maurits. They have been killed during the Holocaust.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Joseph Vieyra and Philip Rodrigues Garcia.
Philip Rodrigues Garcia was a diamond polisher, like most of his family. In the late thirties he decided to leave the safety of his job and opened a record shop for modern music in Amsterdam. During the occupation he was separated from his wife Sara Vieijra and from his child and forced to polish diamonds. His wife was arrested by the nazis when she was trying to pass food to her husband n 1943. When he was deported to Sobibor himself, he threw out a note from the train, asking to take care of his child. This note arrived somehow to the Dutch resistance.
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