On 27 March 1943, Samuel’s mother Rachel Gans-Gans and his twin-sister Sara Gans were registered in Westerbork. Presumably they were arrested for some offence of the many anti-Jewish regulations from the Germans, why in Westerbork they ended up in the penal barrack 67. On 30 March 1943 mother and da…
Samuel Gans died on 16 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).
Meijer Gans was married to Rachel Gans. The couple lived at 20 Henriëtte Ronnerplein, second floor, in Amsterdam.
In January 1942, an obituary was placed in Het Joodsche Weekblad for Meijer Gans.
//Amsterdam municipal archive, Records Jokos, Möbel-claim 15879, property 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 Samuel Gans as disc…
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 …
Twee bladzijden van een lijst van joodse goudhandelaren d.d. 15 januari 1942, illegaal uit het Hoofdbureau van Politie meegenomen door rechercheur Willem Klarenbeek en op diens verzoek gefotografeerd door Bart de Kok.
Hieruit blijkt dat NSB-fotograaf Bart de Kok foto's heeft gemaakt van illegaal mee…