Judith Rodrigues Parreira was a dressmaker by profession. She was born on 27 December 1902 as a daughter of Abraham Rodrigues Parreira and Jetje Brandon. Judith was the 4th child in the family, in which two more children were born afterwards. She lived at home with her parents and siblings but after many relocations, the Rodrigues Parreira family came to live at Weesperstraat 73 in August 1932. Not long afterwards, on 22 August 1932, Judith left the parental home and went living in with her sister Mietje in the ‘s Gravesandestraat 6, who was married to Louis de Zwarte. And when Mietje and Louis moved from house nr. 6 to nr. 16 in August 1933, Judith went with them too.
On 8 August 1934, Judith married in Amsterdam David de la Penha, a son of Hartog de la Penha and Lea Pais. It appeared in Novembr 1932, that also David came living in with Louis de Zwarte and his wife Mietje Rodrigues Parreira in the ‘s Gravesandestraat but after he got married to Judith Rodrigues Parreira, they moved into a house at Oosterpark 3 in Amsterdam-East. In March 1935 they moved to Roetersstraat 40 3rd floor, where on 11 May 1937 their daughter Lea Judith was born and in April 1939 the family moved to Blasiusstraat 7 groundfloor.
David de la Penha originally was a wallpaperer by profession, but in later years he was employed as an insurance agent and this wife Judith was a dressmaker. On 30 January 1940 the family moved for the last time, now to the Graaf Florisstraat 5 1st floor. From this address, David, Judith and their daughter Lea Judith were arrested during the secretly prepared large raid of 20 June 1943, and carried off to Westerbork.
David de la Penha was accommodated there in barrack 72, while his wife Judith and daughter Lea ended up in the penal barrack 65. The barracks 65, 66 and 67 were actually so-called penal barracks with a heavier regime. People who were locked in these barracks, were often arrested people in hiding, who were given less food and they had to perform force labour. The internees accommodated here, had a greater chance of being put on the next transport to the East. (source: Wikipedia).
Since more than 5500 Jews were arrested in the raid of 20 June 1943, who had not yet deported and were all sent to Westerbork where they had to be housed, it was possible that the situation there was more or less chaotic. And since the penal barrack 65 had previously been a women’s barrack, it could be the reason Judith and daughter Lea were taken there, even though they had not been arrested in hiding.
On 6 July 1943, David de la Penha, his wife Judith Rodrigues Parreira and his daughter Lea Judith de la Penha were put on transport from Westerbork to Sobibor. The deportation train contained more that 2417 deportees and upon arrival in Sobibor on 9 July 1943 they were all immediately murdered in the gas chambers. There were no survivors.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of David de la Penha, Judith Rodrigues Parreira and Abraham Rodrigues Parreira; archive cards of David de la Penha, Judith Rodrigues Parreira and Lea Judith de la Penha; Amsterdam residence cards of Roetersstraat 40 and Graaf Florisstraat 5; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of David de la Penha, Judith de la Penha-Rodrigues Parreira and Lea Judith de la Penha and the wikipedia website jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.