Biography

About Esther Lopes de Leao Laguna-Spinosa Cattela

Esther Spinosa Catella was the widow of Jacob Abraham Lopes de Leao Laguna. She died in Westerbork in 1943. In 2007 an urn with her remains was placed at the Jewish cemetery at Ouderkerk aan de Amstel.
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Esther Spinosa Cattela died on 13 November 1943 in Westerbork transit camp and she was cremated on 17 November 1943. The urn with her ashes was placed on the Portugese-Jewish cemetry in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel on field 1924, row 3, grave nr. 76.
Esther Lopes de Leao Laguna-Spinosa Cattela lived at the Amstel 135 I in Amsterdam.
Register van joden die in het kamp Westerbork zijn gecremeerd, 1943-1944; archief van de gemeente Westerbork, opgenomen in het archief van de gemeente Midden-Drenthe te Beilen, inv. n 3789