Jacob Raphael Groen, born 11 August 1896 in Amsterdam, was a son of Aaron Groen and Jetje de Hond. His father died already 14 January 1922 in Amsterdam and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. His mother died 28 February1941 in “Het Apeldoornsche Bosch”, where she was hospitalized as a pat…
Jacob Raphaël Groen
died on 27 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).
The official cause of death: gangrene and pneumonia (Gangraen und Lungenentzündung).
Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).
Branca van Lochem was the daughter of Jacob van Lochem and Esther Rootveld. In 1924 she married Jacob Raphaël Groen.
Branca Groen-van Lochem died in Amsterdam in 1942.
Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Archiefkaart van Branca van Lochem
In addition, a Jokos file (number 52663) on this family is at the Amste…
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 Jacob Raphaël Groen…
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 …