Engelina Adelaar, the eldest of the three children of Benedictus Adelaar and Rebecca Slap, was born 6 January 1918 in Amsterdam. There she married 1 April 1942 Louis Bacharach, who was born 13 October 1917 in Amsterdam as son of Mozes Bacharach and Aaltje Mug.
Engelina Adelaaar lived with her parents and brothers in the Topaasstraat 10 1st floor in Amsterdam and Louis lived with his parents at Blasiusstraat 116, but moved on 6 May 1942 to Vechtstraat 155 and from there on 13 May 1943 to Roetersstraat 40 2nd floor. After being married, Engelina left her parental home on 6 May 1942 and found with her husband living space of their own at Vechtstraat and at Roetersstraat, their last known address in Amsterdam.
Engelina worked as a blouse seamstress and as a frock stitcher. She was arrested on 23 March 1943 and carried off to Westerbork, where she ended up in barrack 66.That week in Westerbork, still various administrative matters were settled, such as obtaining a food voucher, a declaration of the Raad van Arbeid (Council of Labor), that she was registered as seamstress and a declaration of the NAF (National Arbeiders Front – National Labor Front), the successor of the ANDB the trade union for diamond workers that was liquidated in 1942, that her spouse, Louis Bacharach had been a member of the ANDB. This all had no consequences for a possible exemption of deportation because on 30 March Engelina Bacharach-Adelaar was put on transport to Sobibor and on arrival there on 2 Apri9l 1943 she was immediately killed.
However, the archives did not show that Louis Bacharach had worked as a diamond worker; he was a window dresser and later he was a warehouse clerk in textiles and at the Jewish Council employee at the department food distribution. It is possible that he therefore had some kind of exemption from deportation as he was not deported to Sobibor together with his wife. However, also Louis Bacharach was arrested during large scale raids of 20 May 1943 and carried off to Westerbork, where he ended up in barrack 55, where his luggage arrived the next day. On 25 May Louis Bacharach was deported to Sobibor and on arrival there on 28 May 1943, immediately killed.
Sources includes the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Louis Bacharach and Engelina Adelaar, family registration cards and archive cards of van Benedictus Adelaar and Mozes Bacharach; website wiewaswie.nl/wedding Bacharach-Mug; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Engelina Adelaar and Louis Bacharach and the website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl