Esra Jurovics was a ward at the youth aliyah home in Loosdrecht, the Paviljoen Loosdrechtse Rade, from 10 January 1942 until 7 December 1942. He was fluent in Hebrew and studied Tenakh.
Prior to the deportation of the pavilion around 15th august 1942 he went into hiding with Bouke Koning in Friesl…
Esra's father Samuel Majer Jurovics (17.08.1888 in Kosica) was a book dealer and bible researcher. He lived with his mother Edith Jurovics-Wachsner (04.08.1895 in Neisse) and 5 siblings at Wullenweberstr. 4-5 in Berlin Tiergarten until emigration to Brussels around 1937. He then joined the Youth Ali…
Esra Jurovics had a brother Benjamin who survived the war and lived in 1999 in Israel. His brother Rafael survived the war as well, and is also in Israel. Moishe Miller from Brooklyn (moishe@langsam.com) made a genealogical tree of the family, so maybe he can tell you more about the father.
Esra could not be at the Youth Aliya Home in Loosdrecht until 7. December 1942, because, according to the transport lists of the Yad Vashem archives he was deported to Auschwitz on 3. November 1942. Therefore he must have gone into hiding in Friesland earlier.
He is also commemorated on a memor…
My aunt Edith Wachsner was a cousin of my father, Alfredo Simenauer. My father and mother, my brother Stewart and I (Sonia) lived at 17 Sheriff Road, London between 1947 and about 1951.
Esra Jurovics werd geboren op 1 februari 1925 in Berlijn. In de jaren dertig vluchtte hij naar Nederland en kwam in het Paviljoen Loosdrechtsche Rade, waar een groep Duits-sprekende Joodse jongeren verbleef die zonder ouders of andere familie na 1938 naar Nederland gevlucht waren. Zij stonden bekend…