Isidore Eduard Kaas, born 30 May 1900 in Amsterdam, was a son of Joël Kaas and Schoontje Wolf Beffie. On 26 July 1920 he arrived in Den Haag, still unmarried and worked there as foreman in a tobacco factory. He lived at Van Speijkstraat 120 but left for Amsterdam again on 17 May 1921, where he came …
Isidore Eduard Kaas died on 30 November 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).
The official cause of death: myocarditis (Herzmuskelentzündung).
Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).
In addition, a Jokos file (number 18214) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.
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 Isidore Eduard Kaas…
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 …