Biography

About Jenny Clara Agstteribbe.

Jenny Clara Agstteribbe was born in Amsterdam 29 May 1914 as daughter of Liepman Agstteribbe and Sara Schaap. She was unmarried and lived with her also single brother Elias at home with her mother at Plantage Kerklaan 4 1st floor in Amsterdam. Her father had already died in 1924.

Jenny Clara used to work  as sales lady of silk fabrics but since 1 August 1942 she worked as dental assistant at the General Health Insurance Fund Amsterdam in the 2e Van Swindenstraat in Amsterdam-East. According to notes on her registration card of the Jewish Council, she was a religious woman.

On 14 May 1943, Jenny Clara Agsteribbe was arrested an taken to concentration camp Vught. There she had to stay till 12 September 1943, when she from there was transferred to Westerbork. In Westerbork she stayed a few days in barrack 62 and on 14 September she was already put on transport to Auschwitz. On arrival there on 17 September 1943 she has been killed immediately.

Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Liepman Agstteribbe, archive card of Jenny Clara Agstteribbe and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Jenny Clara Agstteribbe.

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