Biography

About Hanna Polak-Leeda.

Hanna Leeda was a daugter of Gideon Leeda and Hendrika Levi. She married 4 March 1913 in Berchem (Antwerp) Alexander Polak, born 31 March 1893 in Amsterdam, diamond polisher by trade, a son of Joseph Polak and Colette Booleman; on 25 August 1913 their daughter Colette Hendrika was born in Berchem.

In September 1914 Hanna, her husband Alexander and daughter Colette Hendrika arrived from Berchem in Rotterdam but in June 1914 they moved to Amsterdam. In 1916 they returned to Antwerp again and per 1 June 1919 they were living in Antwerp, Wipstraat 57.

Hanna Leeda passed away in 1941 in Borgerhout. The City of Antwerp has in her Registers of the Civil Registry her certificate of death, nr. 2032 dated 20 June 1941 which reads: on 16 Juni 1941 has died here Hanna Leeda, born 21 September 1893 in Amsterdam, living in Borgerhout, spouse of Alexander Polak, daughter of Gideon and Hendrika Levi.

Of her spouse and daughte nothing is further known until now.

Sources: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registrationcard of Joseph Polak; city Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Alexander Polak and the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 101974, image 379-388 and the certificate of death 2032 for Hanna Leeda, made out 20 June 1941 by the City of Antwerp.

 

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