Biography

About Jacob Benninga

A note in the file on the M-claims states that Jacob Benninga died on 23 July 1940.
In July 1940, two obituaries were placed in the Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad for Jacob Benninga. One notice was placed by direction and governors of Benninga's Frisian Margarine factory N.V., of which Jacob Benninga was a governor. The factory was based in Leeuwarden.
Amsterdam municipal archive, Records Jokos, Möbel-claim 9698; property Joods Maatschappelijk Werk. Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad, 26 juli 1940.

For additional information on Benninga's Friesche Margarinefabriek, see:
M. Schrover, Het vette, het zoete en het wederzijdse profijt (dissertation 1991)


This person is commemorated on a memorial in Leeuwarden. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.