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Meijer Vorst

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26 Sep 1891 - 30 Sep 1942

  • OCCUPATION: Civil Servant
  • BIRTH: 26 Sep 1891, Culemborg
  • DEATH: 30 Sep 1942, Auschwitz
Father: Hijman Benjamin Vorst
Mother: Kaatje van Leeuwen

Family 1 : Henriette Fles
  1.  Rudolphe Vorst
  2.  Nicole Vorst
                                                _Samuel Ruben Vorst ________________+
                                               | (1792 - 1826) m 1823               
                          _Marcus Ruben Vorst _|
                         | (1825 - 1904) m 1850|
                         |                     |_Kaatje van Straten ________________+
                         |                       (1800 - 1877) m 1823               
 _Hijman Benjamin Vorst _|
| (1860 - 1926) m 1889   |
|                        |                      _Philip Salomon Berlijn ____________+
|                        |                     | (1794 - 1864) m 1821               
|                        |_Sophia Berlijn _____|
|                          (1828 - 1870) m 1850|
|                                              |_Betje Isaac Caffé _________________+
|                                                (1795 - ....) m 1821               
|
|--Meijer Vorst 
|  (1891 - 1942)
|                                               _Maurits van Leeuwen _______________+
|                                              | (1799 - 1856) m 1821               
|                         _Meijer van Leeuwen _|
|                        | (1822 - 1915) m 1858|
|                        |                     |_Helena Jessen _____________________+
|                        |                       (1793 - 1887) m 1821               
|_Kaatje van Leeuwen ____|
  (1865 - 1944) m 1889   |
                         |                      _Mozes van Driel ___________________+
                         |                     | (1786 - 1851) m 1824               
                         |_Eva van Driel ______|
                           (1828 - 1891) m 1858|
                                               |_Kaatje Meijer van den Meijdenberg _
                                                 (1797 - 1872) m 1824               

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On 19 August 1900 [sic], Meijer Vorst married Henriëtte Fles. After their wedding, the couple settled in Paris, where Meijer Vorst worked in a furrier. Their son Rudolphe (nicknamed Rudi) and their daughter Nicole were born there. At the start of the war, the family returned to Amsterdam, from where they were deported.
M. Wolff, De nakomelingen van Wolff ben Eleazar en Moshe ben Gompertz Halevi, 1695-1995 (Arnhem, 2001) 167
Source: Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands