Jacob Mozes Polak, born 27 September 1873 in Hoorn, was a son of Hartog Isaak Polak and Rosette Hijmans. On 10 March 1899 he married in Hoorn the 41-year retailer of the State Lottery, Mietje Deen, a daughter of Joseph Hartog Deen and Lea Levi Worms. However, she passed away in Hoorn on 18 June 1922, aged 63 years and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Hoorn. As far as could researched, Jacob and Mietje had no children.
Jacob Mozes Polak remarried in Hoorn on 8 March 1923 to the 50-year old Sara de Brave, born in Amsterdam as daughter of Machiel Mozes de Brave and Rachel Goedel. She passed away on 14 March 1937 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen.
Jacob Mozes became a widower in 1922. With his second wife Sara de Brave, he moved from Hoorn to Amsterdam on 4 April 1927 and went living in the Riouwstraat 30 2nd floor in Amsterdam-East. He was a vendor; between October 1930 and March 1931 he sold fish on the street market at the Dapperstraat.
In November 1935 they went living from Riouwstraat to Retiefstraat 76 1st floor. There Sara de Brave passed in 1937, where after Jacob Mozes moved as a widower to Weesperzijnde 141 II, in November 1940 to Niasstraat 71 and on 31 June 1941 to Transvaalstraat 103 upperhouse.
This was his last known address in Amsterdam. Jacob Mozes Polak was arrested 21 November 1942 and taken to Westerbork and put on transport to Auschwitz on 30 November. This transport contained 826 deportees in total, of whom 327 arrested employees of the clothing factory Hollandia Kattenburg. At Kozel, ±80 km west from Auschwitz, 170 persons had to leave the train, to be deployed as forced labourers. Those who remained in the train were transported onwards to Auschwitz to be killed. On arrival there on 3 December 1942 Jacob Mozes Polak has been immediately killed.
Sources including website openarchieven.nl, marriages Jacob Mozes Polak to Mietje Deen and Sara de Brave; website hetstenenarchief.nl, graves of Mietje Deen and Sara de Barva; City Archive of Amsterdma, several residence cards; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Jacob Mozes Polak and the Wikipedia list of Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.
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