Jaap polak biography samples
Jaap polak biography samples
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Works by Jaap Polak
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Polak, Jaap
- Legal name
- Polak, Jacob
- Other names
- Polak-Prziblendy, Jacob
Polak, Jack - Birthdate
- 1912-12-31
- Date of death
- 2015-01-09
- Burial location
- Mount Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Netherlands (birth)
USA - Birthplace
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Place of death
- Eastchester, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eastchester, New York, USA
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - Occupations
- accountant
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
public speaker
school administrator
writer - Organizations
- Anne Frank Center USA
- Awards and honors
- Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau (1992)
- Short biography
- Jacob "Jaap" Polak was born to a religious Jewish family in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, that could trace its roots in the country back 200 years.
He attended a Jewish elementary school until age 12, and then entered a commercial high school, where he studied acco