Biography

About David Eduard Izaks

David Eduard Izaks was the youngest son of Eliazar Izaks and Henriëtte Izaks-Glaser. He had two brothers, Gerson and Salomon Albert, and a sister, Saartje Henriëtte. The family lived at 83 Voorstraat in Woerden.

When Jews were forced to surrender their bicycles in 1941, David Eduard surrendered a Geka children's bicycle. David Eduard Izaks and the others in his family reached Vught concentration camp on 22 April 1943. On 7 June 1943 he was deported with his mother and sister Saartje Henriëtte on the so-called children's transport from Vught via Westerbork to Sobibor. They were killed there on 11 June 1943. David Eduard Izaks was 10 when he died.
//J. de Moei, Joodse kinderen in het kamp Vught (Vught 1999) 40;
W.C. Ultee, We mogen nergens heen, we moeten naar Vught. De joodse inwoners van Woerden, 1930-1947 (Woerden 1999)//