Abraham Barend, (in the corner right on the photo) and both his sons Gerrit (centre) and Isaac (right) and left a nephew, son of Abraham's sister Eva Barend, Gerrit Huis, who survived the Shoah. Photo ±1939.
Private collection
Abraham Barend was a son of Gerrit Barend and Heintje Visser and born on 11 August 1905 in Amsterdam. He started his career as an errand boy, became an apprentice baker and eventually he was a bread baker by profession. On 9 February 1927 he married Anna Naarden in Amsterdam, who was born on 16 Febr…
In addition, a Jokos file (number 4217) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.
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 …
Part of the text on page 223 from volume 8 of Dr. L. de Jong: conditions in the Seibersdorf forced labor camp, located in the south of Poland near the Czech border:
Just as in Bobrek, a new camp had to be built in Seibersdorf. "During the day," according to a member of the Kosel group, "we had to wo…