Saul Smit

Amsterdam, – Auschwitz,

Reached the age of 54 years

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About Saul Smit and his wife Nora Wilson Belcher from London.

Saul Smit was a son of Nathan Smit and Heintje de Wolf. He was born 7 December 1887 in Amsterdam. At the age of 27 he married 3 April 1915 in London the 28-year old Nora Wilson Belcher, born there 14 February 1886 as a daughter of William Belcher and Hester Tubb Weaver. Just as his parents, Saul Smi…

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Saul Smit's death certificate

Saul Smit died on 16 December 1942 in Zwangsarbeitslager Niederkirch, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland). Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt)

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The death of Saul Smit

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  Saul Smit as disco…

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The Kozel period.

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 …

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About the 7th convoy of 1 September 1942

This transport includes 1000 persons, among them 344 children. They have never been so numerous before. It indicates a new big raid, the second of the “final solution”, once again in Antwerp with the cooperation of the Belgian police, during the night of 28 to 29 August. The list of the convoy, that…

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The address of Saul Smit

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