Sipora Wurms-Menist

Isaac Wurms, the second of the four children of Juda Wurms and Rebecca Vogel, was born on 26 June 1916 in Amsterdam. He was a compositor but changed trade later and became employed at the clothing factory Hollandia Kattenburg as a raincoat sticker. He married on 30 October 1940 Sipora Menist, a daughter of Meijer Menist and Branca van Rheenen. She was a machine stitcher and was employed with Holla…

Sipora Wurms-Menist joined the Hollandia-Kattenburg textile factory in Amsterdam on 28 March 1938. On Wednesday, 11 November 1942, around 4:30 PM, Willy Lages conducted the Sicherheitspolizei raid on the Hollandia factories. All exits were blocked and the Jewish staff members were taken away that evening. Photographs of all workers taken away that evening, as well as those deported previously, app…