By establishing the date of death of Jo Theo Wallig the official date is maintained as stated after the war by the Dutch Department of Justice.
In a document, which was a protocol of an on-site inspection conducted by Polish judicial authorities in March 1946 at the former camp of Blechhammer and a…
Jo Theo Wallig was born 30 March 1924 in Amsterdam as the 3rd child in the family of Daniel Wallig and Rachel Mok. His eldest brother Rudolph Daniel survived the Shoah. His siblings Alexandrine Jacqueline and Henri Edward have been killed during the Holocaust, just as Jo Theo himself. His father Dan…
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 …
In the vicinity of the village of Blechhammer there were a number of forced labor camps with a total of about 50,000 forced laborers. One of these camps was later transformed into concentration camp Blechhammer, an outlying camp of the concentration camp KZ Auschwitz III Monowitz. There the Oberschl…
In de zomer van 1942 kwam het “stempel Bolle” in omloop, dat de naam droeg van de algemene secretaris van de Joodse Raad en een dekking moest verschaffen aan belangrijke personen; het vermocht overigens deze secretaris zelf niet te vrijwaren voor een betrekkelijk vroegtijdige wegvoering, Van 30 …