Louis Boas was a son of Alexander Boas and Rachel Koen. He married 10 April 1924 Roza Pimontel, daughter of Salomon Pimontel and Sara Swart. The couple had no children.
From the first marriage of his father to Catharina Walvisch, solomnizes in Amsterdam on 7 May 1873, Louis had three brothers: Baren…
Louis Boas died on 30 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).
The official cause of death: laryngeal tuberculosis (Kehlkopftuberkulose).
Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).
In addition, a Jokos file (number 40376) 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 Louis Boas as disco…
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 …