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Jo van Os was a coffee trader. He was married in 1917 to Selina (Lini) de Lafuente, who was thirteen years his junior. They had a daughter, Peggy, who died when she was ten years old, and a son Robert (Bob).
Jo's brother-in-law, Wim Kymmell, a lawyer in Amsterdam, made every effort to save his in-laws from deportation. Jo's brother and his five sisters were mixed marriages, but his elderly mother would certainly have been arrested if the family had not initiated Calmeyer proceedings. Kymmell initially argued mainly that the family was very integrated and did not feel Jewish, but that did not help. Hans Calmeyer, head of the Decision Office who had to make the decision on this matter, must have alerted Kymmell that his mother-in-law's brother and sisters claimed that they had only one or two Jewish grandparents. When the family members started working together, it led to a successful procedure with the help of Calmeyer. The book 'Struggling to escape the trap' shows how several dozen members of the De Hoop, Wessels, Van Os, Dribbel, etc. families survived the war through a joint procedure at the Decision Office of Hans Calmeyer.
However, this did not work for Jo van Os, who was married to Selina de Lafuente. Jo was arrested in May 1943, possibly at the same time as Selina. Jo was in camp Vught for a short time and then, together with Selina, in Westerbork until they were sent to Sobibor on July 6, 1943 and murdered there on arrival. Bob lived in Amsterdam for some time before he was also arrested.

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