Abraham Baruch, born 26 February 1896 in Nieuweschans, was a son of the 32-year old Izaak Baruch and the 30-year of age Annechien Goldsmid. Abraham was a livestock trader, just like his father; he married in Nieuwe Pekela Betje de Levie, who was born there on 28 February 1903 as daughter of the live…
Abraham Baruch died on 30 November 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).
The official cause of death: right-sided pneumonia (rechtsseitige Lungenentzündung).
Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).
Abraham Baruch was a cattle dealer. He had much contact with dealers and customers in the province of Groningen. A then fellow trader from Winschoten has received a letter from the Baruch family from Westerbork in which they say thanks for clothing and footwear. The letter also describes the miserab…
Research into the wartime civil registries of one of the civil registry offices in Upper Silesias (Poland) discovered many records that corresponded to deaths of inmates from the "Reichsautobahnlager Annaburg" and "Zwangsarbeitslager Niederkirch" camps.
A certificate of death for Abraham Baruch, as …
The period between 28 August till 12 December 1942 was known as the so-called “Kozel-period”. Named as such, as a number of transports with deported Jews from Belgium, France and Holland were stopped at Kozel station, about 80 km west from Auschwitz, where the Germans unloaded men who were suitable …