Ies Monnikendam

Isaäc "Ies" Monnikendam (born June 10, 1885 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ; died October 8, 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a Dutch actor and victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Isaac Monnikendam began his artistic career in 1907 with the small theater company Van Liers Hollandsch Tooneelgezelschap. In the following years Monnikendam appeared continuously on small private, touring and revue stages and thereby rose to become a popular Dutch folk actor and comedian. The artist with the distinctive, high forehead also took part in operettas. Monnikendam was seen now and then in nationally known theater roles based on models by Knut Hamsun and Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill (" The Threepenny Opera ", in the 1929/30 season).

Ies Monnikendam appeared in front of the camera only very rarely, only two films are documented. After the occupation of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht in May 1940, the Jewish artist was no longer allowed to perform. Eventually Monnikendam was arrested and taken to the Westerbork transit camp . On October 5, 1942, he was deported from there to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where Ies Monnikendam was presumably gassed shortly after his arrival, about three days later. His sister Dina, who was two years older than him, was murdered in the same place in January 1943, the life of his brother Barend, born in 1891, ended in September 1943, also in Auschwitz.

Filmography

• 1928: Het heksenlied
• 1937: Pygmalion

literature

• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 252.

Web links

• Ies Monnikendam in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Isaäc Monnikendam in Stambomen van Nederlands Joodse families