Marianna Loonstein was a daughter of Emanuel Jacob Loonstein and Saartje Boutelje. She married 25 may 1880 in Den Helder to Levi Polak, a son of Philip Polak and Mietje de Jong. The couple had eleven children, of whom two sons have died in childhood: one son aged 7 and the other only 9 months old. One daughter has suvived the war; one son moved to London but the other seven children, Mietje, Emanuel, Flora, Isidore, George and the at home with their mother living unmarried sisters Esther and Duifje did not survive the Holocaust.
Levi Polak has died, 75 years old on 8 April 1931 in Amsterdam and was interred at the Jewish Cemetery of Muiderberg on 12 April 1931.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Marianna Loonstein, family registration card of Levi Polak, website Akevoth and website www.wiewaswie.nl.
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