The Kon family, consisting of Mosiek Markus Kon, born in Plock, Poland in 1878, his wife Chana Dydakov, born in Biezun, Poland in 1882, and their children Hersz, Icek, Estera Brana, Cyon and Szymon, all born in Plock in Poland, arrived from Plock in Amsterdam in July 1931.
After their settling in Amsterdam, where they have lived for a start and among others at Govert Flinckstraat 416 parterre, their children got married and left their parental home to build a family in their own home. The Mosiek Markus family however moved early December 1932 to Blasiusstraat 58 parterre and moved into a house at nr. 46 parterre in August 1935 where they continued to live until their arrest and deportation to the death camps.
Mosiek Markus was a merchant and tailor. But already up from 1935 he was also janitor of the synagogue Blasiusstraat. At house nr. 46, where Mosiek and his family already resided since the end of August 1935, a synagogue had been established already in 1908: the Ahawad Chesed Synagogue. Also on the corner of Blasiusstraat/Swammerdamstraat was a synagogue, established in 1907, mainly used by East European Jews.
Their 16-year old son Szymon had obtained a job with the Jewish Council, but had been transferred on 7 January 1943 from the General Service Department to the department Jewish Businesses Food Supply by the Jewish Council at Waterlooplein. Therefore he had a “Sperre” issued by the Council, and also his father Mosiek and mother Chana were provisionally exempted from deportation. They had Sperre numbers/stamps in the 80-100.000 series (87363-87364-87365), which actually were only reserved for Jewish Council Members, the actual Jewish Council “stamps”.
But on 20 June 1943, during the large-scale and secretly prepared raid, where the Germans then arrested more than 5500 Jews, also Mosiek Markus Kon, his wife Chana Dydakov and their son Szymon were arrested and carried off to Westerbork. From there, they have been put on transport on 20 July to Sobibor and on arrival there on 23 July 1943, they were immediately killed in the gas chambers there.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Mosiek Markus Kon and Chana Dydakov; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Mosiek Markus Kon, Chana Kon-Dydakov and Szymon Kon; “Ondergang” volume 1, page 287 and further/Stamps, by Dr. J. Presser; website Erfgoed Joods Amsterdam, Blasiusstraat, Swammerdamstraat and synagogue Ahawad Chesed (only Dutch language).