Isidorus Schijvenschuurder was born in Antwerp on 2 February 1898 as son of Eva Jacoba Schijvenschuurder and Meijer Samuel van Praag. Isidorus married in Amsterdam Sientje van Praag on 12 February 1919, who was born 3 December 1895 as daughter of the disc sander Israël van Praag and Saartje de Hond.…
Isidorus Schijvenschuurder died on 29 November 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).
The official cause of death: heart failure (Herzschwäche).
Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).
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 Isidorus Schijvensc…
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