Rebecca Vogel. a daughter of Isaäc Vogel and Trijntje Lubig, was born on 18 July 1889 in Amsterdam. She was the seventh in the family of ten children. Of those ten children, three of them have died before the war; the others, whether or not with their families, were murdered during the Shoah.
Rebecca married in Amsterdam on 16 September 1917 the greengrocer Juda Wurms, a son of Abraham Wurms and Femmetje Verdoner. Juda was born on 11 August 1886 in Amsterdam and he too was born into a large family: he was the sixth in a family of twelve children, of whom six – whether or not with wife and children – were murdered during the Shoah. The other six children have died in Amsterdam of whom five at a very young age.
Before Juda was wed, he lived at home at Korte Houtstraat 25 and Rebecca at Valkenburgerstraat 9 2nd floor-front, but after the marriage was concluded, they both moved into living space at Foeliestraat 38 2nd floor. There, their four children were born, viz. Femmetje in April 1915, Isaac in June 1916, Abraham in June 1918 and Catharina in March 1921. On 20 August 1929, the entire Wurms-family moved to Tugelaweg 95 1st floor, located in the Transvaal district of Amsterdam-East.
When their daughter Femmetje married Jacob Batavier in 1942, he – as a son-in-law – came living in with the family of Juda and Rebecca. Isaac however left his parental home for the address of his in-laws, Oude Schans 50 2nd floor, after he married Sipora Menist in October 1940 and after her marriage to Louis Vogel in July 1942, Catharina moved in with her husband, who lived with his stepmother Duifje Korper at Afrikanerplein 51 3rd floor. Their unmarried son Abraham stayed living at home on Tugelaweg.
Already during the large scaled raids of early October 1942, Juda Wurms and his wife Rebecca were arrested and carried off to Westerbork. They arrived there between 3 and 5 October, while at the same time also all Jewish forced laborers from the liquidated Jewish labor camps in the Northern Netherlands were arriving in Westerbork. The situation there was chaotic and far from clear.
As a result of that, registration of where Juda and Rebecca were accommodatedin the camp was impossible, but it was certain that they have been put on transport to Auschwitz on 9 October 1942. Upon arrival there on 12 October 1942, Juda Wurms and Rebecca Wurms-Vogel were immediately murdered in the gas chamber of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Juda Wurms and Isaäc Vogel (1861); archive cards of Abraham Wurms (1857), Juda Wurms and Rebecca Vogel; Amsterdam residence cards of Foeliestraat 38 and Tugelaweg 95/Juda Wurms and Valkenburgerstraat 8/Rebecca Vogel; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Juda Wurms and Rebecca Wurms-Vogel and the Wikepedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Amsterdam.