Simon David, the son of Isaac David and Elizabeth Velleman, still living at home with his parents and who worked as an office clerk, was born in Rotterdam on 21 June 1897 and was given the surname Velleman from his mother at birth. On 30 March 1903, seven months after Isaac David and Elizabeth Velle…
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 …