Last Name: Werkendam First Name: Dora Gender: Female Date of Birth: 3/10/1922 Place of Birth: Amsterdam,Noordholland,The Netherlands Place during the War: The Netherlands Place of Death: Auschwitz,Camp,Poland Date of Death: 30-4-1943 Status according to Source: deported to an extermination camp Source: In Memoriam - Nederlandse oorlogsslachtoffers, Nederlandse Oorlogsgravenstichting, `s-Gravenhage (Dutch Victims, Dutch War Victims Authority; courtesy of the Association of Yad Vashem Friends in Netherlands, Amsterdam) Type of material: List of murdered Jews from the Netherlands Item ID: 4308936
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Household of Dora Werkendam
Notes about Dora Werkendam
Dora Werkendam Dora Werkendam had een niet-Joodse verloofde, bij wie ze in 1942 samen met haar moeder, haar broer Max en nog vijf andere familieleden onderdook. Hij woonde op het Meerhuizenplein. Op 10 december 1942 werd er een inval gedaan op het adres, waarbij alle onderduikers werden opgepakt. Bron: 'Vogelvrij. De jacht op de joodse onderduiker', Sytze van der Zee, Amsterdam 2010. Dora Werkendam zat gevangen in Kamp Westerbork.
The temperature on October 3, 1922 was between 7.9 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 18 » In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
May 10 » The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
August 22 » Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush during the Irish Civil War.
August 30 » Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
October 19 » British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.
November 24 » Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
Day of death April 30, 1943
The temperature on April 30, 1943 was between 5.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 22 » World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly fought Battle of Buna–Gona.
February 20 » American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
February 27 » In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
August 2 » World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
October 8 » World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.
October 16 » Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
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