Biography

About Mietje Beek-van Weezel.

Mietje van Weezel was a daughter of Moses Levie van Weezel and Cato Salomon Davidson. She was born in Amsterdam on 8 November 1859 and married 21 June 1882 in Amsterdam Abraham Beek, a son of Aron Jacob Beek and Mietje Waterman. Mietje's husband, who's latest profession was commercial agent, passed away in Amsterdam on 5 June 1932 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg.

The couple had seven children, namely Aron in 1884, Cato in 1886, Maurits in 1887, Jacob in 1889, Salomon in 1891, Louis in 1892 and David in 1895. Salomon deceased in 1938 in Brussel, David in 1931 in Rotterdam and Maurits in 1941 in Amsterdam. The other children have beek all killed during the Shoah in Auschwitz or Sobibor.

Mietje van Weezel passed away in Amsterdam at the age of 82 on 13 October 1942 in Amsterdam and she was interred too in the Jewish Cemetery of Muiderberg on 15 October 1942.

Bronnen o.a. Stadsarchief Amsterdam, archiefkaart Mietje van Weezel, archiefkaart van Abraham Beek en de websites Akevoth/Mokum/Burialpermits/Mietje van Weezel en de website hetstenenarchief.nl/graven Abraham Beek en Mietje van Weezel.

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