Alfred de Jong, born in Den Haag on 1 April 1926, was a son of Leo de Jong and Ida Wertheimer. Alfred was the eldest of four children in the family, which also consisted of his sisters Marianna, Nanny and brother Emanuel Ernst. The entire De Jong family was killed during the Holocaust.
The family wa…
Alfred de Jong died on 4 December 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 Alfred de Jong as d…
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