Mozes de Jong was a son of the commercial agent Izaak de Jong and Klaartje Polak. He was born 11 August 1896 in Amsterdam and married there on 25 February 1925 Judith Stad, a daughter of shopkeeper Joseph Stad and Elisabeth Scheffer. Mozes de Jong was in ladies fashon hats engros, was proxy holder, …
Mozes de Jong died on 10 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).
The official cause of death: gangrene and myocarditis (Gangraen und Herzmuskelentzündung).
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 Mozes de Jong as di…
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 …