Isaac Wessel, fruiterer and trader of dried and salted vegetables, was a son of Barend Wessel and Klaartje Gompers. He had three sisters and one brother, namely Duifje, Esther, Mietje and Barend, who already has passed in 1922 in Amsterdam, aged 52. The deceased was married to Rosa de Haaff, daughter of Salomon de Haaff and Carolina Schnitzler. Isaac self and also his three sisters were killed in the Shoah.
Isaac Wessel married 19 August 1908 Marianna Rosalie Parfumeur, born in Amsterdam on 1 December 1876, but she passed away there on 13 July 1919. Isaac Wessel and Marianna Parfumeur had a daughter: Clara, who was born 14 September 1910. She married in 1939 L.B. van Beever and left with him in August 1939 for Antwerp.
After the passing of Isaac’s wife, he remarried on 13 April 1921 in London Sophia de Haaff, also a daughter of Salomon de Haaff and Carolina Schnitzler; she was born 28 September 1875 in Rotterdam. Isaac Wessel lived at Joden Breestraat 38 1b in the old city centre of Amsterdam. Isaac and Sophia had no offspring.
Isaac Wessel had a “Sperre” – exempted from deportation until further notice – issued by the Jewish Council. He was “co-owner” of Food business B.I. Wessel at Houtkoopersdwarsstraat 2 in Amsterdam, of which his father Barend Isaac Wessel was the founder. (Isaac’s father however passed away already in 1919 and his mother Klaartje Gompers in 1920). Because of his exemption, Isaac had this job at the Jewish Council as administrator of a depot of vegetables. And because of his “Sperre”, also his wife Sophia de Haaff was exempted from deportation for the time being.
Towards the end of May 1943, the Germans cancelled all exemptions and Isaac and his wife Sophia were arrested during the raids of 26 May 1943 and taken to Westerbork, where they ended up in barrack 55. On 1 June, they were both put on transport to Sobibor where on arrival on 4 May 1943, they were immediately murdered.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card and archive card of Isaac Wessel; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Isaac Wessel and Sophia Wessel-de Haaff and their certificates of death nr. 563 and 564, made out in Amsterdam on 22 August 1947.