Victor IJzerman was a son of Abraham IJzerman and Mietje Hoepelman. He was born 10 August 1888 in Amsterdam and worked as processor of tobacco powder for the Trading Society Handelsvereniging v.h. B. Stuiver in the Nieuwe Kerkstraat 141 in Amsterdam, but also as a diamond polisher. Victor married in…
Victor IJzerman died on 12 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).
The official cause of death: gangrene and body decay (Gangraen und Körperverfall).
Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).
In addition, a Jokos file (number 15515) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting 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 of Victor IJzerman …
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 …