Abraham Assou was a son of Isaac Assou and Anna Bed. He married 22 May 1924 in Amsterdam Anna Polak, a daughter of Mozes Polak and Mietje Polak. The couple had three children, namely Marja in 1925, Lily in 1927 and Isaac in 1930. The entire family was killed during the Shoah.
Abraham was a diamond s…
Abraham Assou was een zoon van Isaac Assou en Anna Bed.
Volgens zijn archiefkaart in SAA is hij op 22 mei 1924 getrouwd in Amsterdam.
Zijn broer Philip Assou is op 20 Mei 1920 getrouwd met Vrouwtje Polak, een zus van zijn vrouw Anna.
Vrouwtje heeft de oorlog overleefd.
Abraham Assou died on 7 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).
The official cause of death: general body weakness (allgemeine Körperschwäche).
Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).
In addition, a Jokos file (number 8755) 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…
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 Abraham Assou as di…
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 …