Abraham Barend Heijmans, who was born on 20 April 1901 in Alphen aan den Rijn as son of the stock broker Joseph Heijmans from Appeltern and Susanna Gersons from Tilburg, married on 14 August 1928 in Zwolle the there born Helena Letter, born 8 June 1901 as eldest of the four children of Aron Israel L…
In addition, a Jokos file (number 2847) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting b…
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 …
Part of the text on page 223 from volume 8 of Dr. L. de Jong: conditions in the Seibersdorf forced labor camp, located in the south of Poland near the Czech border:
Just as in Bobrek, a new camp had to be built in Seibersdorf. "During the day," according to a member of the Kosel group, "we had to wo…