Emanuel Herman Oudkerk, the son of Heiman Oudkerk and Helena Sondervan, was born on 1 January 1918 in Amsterdam. He was employed as office clerk at the State Office for Skins and Leather. At the age of 22, he married in Amsterdam the non-Jewish Silvia Mignon Breedt, who was born on 12 December 1916 as the daughter of Jan Wilhelm Pieter Breedt and Marie Louise van Wijhe in Batavia (Dutch East Indies).
Until his marriage, Emanuel Herman lived at home with his parents at Roelof Hartstraat 26 3rd floor but after his wedding, he moved on 20 July 1940 with his wife Silvia to Dufaystraat 2 ground floor in Amsterdam-South. Three months later, both left for the Willem de Zwijgerlaan 24 groundfloor in Amsterdam-West, were Emanuel Herman, at the time of the mandatory registration of alll Jews in the Netherlands, was registered too with the Jewissh Council.
However, in June, he fell victim of the 2nd raid in Amsterdam of 11 June 1941. During the first raid in February 1941, 400 young Jewish men were rounded up at the Jonas Daniel Meijerplein. They were carried off to Camp Schoorl and from there to concentration camp Mauthausen.
During the 2nd raid of Amsterdam, Emanuel Herman Oudkerk was arrested too that 11th of June 1941, together with more than 300othere young Jewish men and through the internment camp Schoorl sent to Mauthausen. There on 18 October 1941 Emanuel Herman Oudkerk has died. After the war, his widow Silvia Breedt returned in 1947 to Batavia again.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam,family registration card of Heiman Oudkerk; archive cards of Emanuel Herman Oudkerk, Silvia Mignon Breedt; Amsterdam residence card/Willem de Zwijgerlaan 24 ground floor; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Emanuel Herman Oudkerk; and the website Oorlogsbronnen/razzia (raid) Amsterdam 11 June 1941.
Raid of Amsterdam, 11 June 1941
On 11 June 1941, a second raid took place in Amsterdam following the attacks on German Wehrmacht buildings. Jewish cafes and sports clubs were searched. 310 young Jewish men were arrested by the Amsterdam police and Ordnungspolizei. Some came from the Jewish working village of Wieringermeer. They were taken to the SD building on Euterpestraat and then to Camp Schoorl. Some were released due to health reasons. The rest of the men were sent to Camp Mauthausen on 26 June 1941. The raid was revenge for a bomb attack by the resistance on 14 May 1941 and an attack on the Luftwaffe telephone exchange on 3 June 1941. None of the Jewish men returned from Camp Mauthausen.
source: website Oorlogsbronnen