RABBI ISAAC MAARSEN INSTALLED AS SENIOR RABBI OF THE HAGUE Isaac Maarsen was born in Amsterdam on February 27th 1892. He had already been working for six years as a rabbi in Amsterdam when at the age of 33 he was appointed opperrabbijn of Den Haag. During the Second...
FOUNDATION OF LOET C. BARNSTIJN STANDARD MOVIES Loet C. Barnstijn was de son of Hertog Izak Cohen and Eva Barnstijn. He grew up in Enschede and at the age of 24 he moved to Den Haag. He found work in a textile company and worked his way up from clerk to buyer. By...
OPENING OF THE NEW PAPERFACTORY ‘ESVEHA’ NV Esveha is an old Jewish family company with a long history in Den Haag. The name comes from the founder, mr. Ph. Simons who started a carton factory in 1878 on the Stille Veerkade in Den Haag. From the first the...
WORLD WAR ONE Though The Netherlands were neutral during the First World War and life went on much as before, the war was clearly present in the daily lives of burghers. In August, following the German invasion of Belgium, a group of Belgian Jews -as well as a great...
OPENING THE NEW FASHION EMPORIUM ‘MAISON DE BONNETERIE’ De Bonneterie was started in Amsterdam, but in 1895 Mr. and Mrs. Cohen-Wittgenstein opened a branch of Maison de Bonneterie on the Gravenstraat 4 in Den Haag. In 1909 they began constructing a new...
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