Louis Halberstadt was deported on 2 October 1942 to Auschwitz. His last lifesign was a postcard to his oldest daughter, thrown from the train, found and posted by an unknown person. Private collection
This person is commemorated on a memorial in Emmen. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.
Louis Halberstadt was the son of Joseph Tetje Halberstadt and Reintje Pachter. Louis married in 1895 to Rieka Jacobs, who died in 1915. Louis and Rieka had six children. Two children died when they are very young, Roosje died in the war and three children survived the war. Louis remarried in 1916 to…