Biography

About Judic Bloemhof and her husband Hartog Mullem.

Judic Bloemhof was the first child from the second marriage of Salomon Abraham Bloemhof. His first wife Roosje Ossendrijver passed away 25 August 1909 and two years later he married Anna Vleeskruijer. Judic was born 14 November 1912. Later still a sister Johanna followed.

Judic was employed as warehouse clerk. She lived at home with her parents at Hofmeijerstraat 23 2nd floor in Amsterdam-East, till she got married 10 January 1940 in Amsterdam to Hartog Mullem, (usually called Harry), a son of Hijman Mullem and Vogeltje Pront. Harry Mullem earned his living as a street market vendor of textiles. The Mullem couple moved in their own home at Afrikanerplein 50 2nd floor in the Amsterdam Transvaal district on 10 January 1940. There, in 1942, also Judic’s sister Johanna Barzilaij-Bloemhof and her family would come living in.

Judic and Harry Mullem were among the first to respond, whether or not trough a call, to be employed in Germany for the so-called “expansion of work under police supervision”. They were both deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 27 July 1942, where they arrived around 30 July 1942 and were deployed there as forced labourers.

It is not exactly known on what date Hartog Mullem and Judic Bloemhof lost their lives there. That is why the Dutch Ministry of Justice ordered the  municipality of Amsterdam after the war to draw up a certificate of death for both Hartog Mullem and Judic Mullem-Bloemhof, in which has been established that they have died in Auschwitz on 30 September 1942.  

Sources among others:  Amsterdam City Archive, archive cards of Hartog Mullem and Judich Bloemhof and the family registration card of Salomon Abraham Bloemhof; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Hartog Mullem and Judic Mullem-Bloemhof.

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