Judith Stokvis was a daughter of Abram Stokvis and Klara Dusseldorp. She was born on 3 February 1875 as the eldest of three children into the family and she was unmarried. Her brother was Jozef, born on 3 February 1876 and her sister Susanna, who was born on 31 August 1877.
The Abram Stokvis family lived in Amsterdam at various addresses: at the Jonas Daniel Meijerplein, at Nieuwe Herengracht, the Swammerdamstraat, the Hemonystraat and since 3 July 1901 in the Van Woustraat 76.
On 25 June 1904 Judith left Amsterdam for the Willem-II straat in Tilburg, where she came living in with the widow Sophie Hartogensis-van Ham, as a companion lady. Sophie’s spouse, Jacob Jeronimus Hartogensis had passed away there on 28 March 1904 and of her three children, Hendrik Jacob and Samuel had left Tilburg for Rotterdam already in 1901. Only her son Isidore lived with his mother and there was also a servant maid in the house, who left for Haarlem in 1909.
The widowed Sophie Hartogensis-van Ham passed away on 10 September 1919 and on 9 February 1922 also her son Isidore Hartogensis at the age of 56. In the end of March 1922 Judith Stokvis left Tilburg for Rotterdam, where she went to the Gravendijkwal 15 at first; there Hendrik Jacob Hartogensis and his family lived and also his unmarried brother Samuel. Since early June 1922 Judith and Samuel Hartogensis moved into a house in the Graaf Florisstraat 68b and on 24 February 1938 they both moved to the Rochussenstraat 29c in Rotterdam.
At the time of the compulsory registration of all Jews in the Netherlands from January 1941, Judith Stokvis lived at the Mathenesserlaan 425b in Rotterdam. On 22 April 1943 she was arrested there and sent to concentration camp Vught, from where she was transferred to Westerbork on 8 May 1943. After arrival there on the 9th, she was housed in barrack 60 and on 11 May 1943 put on transport to Sobibor. Upon arrival there on 14 May 1943, she was immediately murdered in the gas chambers. Of this transport of in total 1446 victims, there was only one survivor of Sobibor, named Jozef Wins. Upon arrival he was selected with other men to perform forced labor in a nearby labor camp. Two years later the totally exhausted Wins was liberated in Dachau.(source: website https://www.sobibor.org/transport-11/)
Sources include the City Archive Amsterdam, clsed volumes of family registrations/Abram Stokvis (1838); Population Registry of Tilburg 1910-19290/Judith Stokvis; family registration card of Rotterdam/Judith Stokvis: website ITS Arolson/camp card Vught Judith Stokvis; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Judith Stokvis and the wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.