Elias Schijvenschuurder, born 21 April 1895 in Antwerp, was a son of Eva Jacoba Schijvenschuurder. He married in Amsterdam Saartje Theeboom on 10 August 1916, a daughter of Levie Theeboom and Fijtje van Cleef. On 26 February 1918 their daughter Evalina was born in Amsterdam.
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Elias Schijvenschuurder died on 28 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).
The official cause of death: pulmonary edema (Lungenodem).
Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).
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 Elias Schijvenschuu…
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 …