Abraham Vos was a son of Isaac Vos and Mietje Visser en was born on 27 September 1898 in Amsterdam. On 28 November 1929 he married there Jetta van Delft, a daughter of Abraham van Delft and Esther Brommet, who were both born in Veendam but since September 1904 were living in Amsterdam. The Abraham V…
In addition, a Jokos file (number 14853) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.
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…