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Julia van Voolen-Kan was the widow of George (also called Gompert) van Voolen. She was a sister of Flora Kan, who had married her brother-in-law Israël van Voolen, and Johanna Kan. The couple had two children: Maurice and one child who escaped to the United States via Curaçao in 1940. Julia van Voolen-Kan lived in the house of her son Maurits.

Israël van Voolen (born April 22, 1875 in Amsterdam) moved at the beginning of the 20th century with his brother Gompert (May 7, 1879 in Amsterdam - October 31, 1924 Haarlem) with his brother Gompert from the poor Jewish quarter of Amsterdam to Haarlem. Spaarne 25-27 set up a small department store, connected to their apartments. He was an active board member of the Haarlem Jewish Community and supported the establishment of a Jewish ward in the general hospital (1930).

After his brother's death in 1922, Israel van Voolen was responsible not only for the support of his two sons but also for the two sons of Gompert and his widow. His wife, Flora Kan (born August 4, 1880 in Amsterdam) died on December 14, 1936.

In early 1939 Israel van Voolen married Dina 'Toni' Götz (born March 3, 1873 in Bamberg), who was also a widow and whom he had met in Chemnitz, probably because his son Maurits (August 25, 1909 in Haarlem - before April 1944 in Ghetto Warsaw) in 1934 married the Chemnitz Jewish Amalia 'Mally' Rosenfeld (October 28, 1912 - September 3, 1943 in Auschwitz). The couple has since lived in Haarlem.

Israël van Voolen was regularly in Chemnitz, where he was entered in the town's address book in 1942 (Germaniastraße 11, Vorderhaus, now Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße). He was fully aware of the Nazi threat. In February 1940, as a Dutchman, he was able to take his wife and their son Ralf Götz by train to Rotterdam, from where they continued to try to obtain a visa for America. In vain, he and his wife were taken from their "Jewish home" in Rotterdam (Burgemeester Meineszlaan 36a) to the Westerbork transit camp in November 1942 through the "Loods 24" collection point and were deported to Auschwitz on 2 November 1942. There they were murdered immediately upon arrival on November 5, 1942.

Stolpersteine was also laid for his apartment in Haarlem and for his last residence in Rotterdam, as well as for the house in Chemnitz at Kassbergstrasse 22a.

Maurits and Mally van Voolen also tried unsuccessfully to flee with their son. An older son Israëls van Voolen survived underground in the Netherlands, as did a son of his brother Gompert, who escaped to Curaçao with his wife and son shortly before the outbreak of war in April 1940.

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