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Abraham Bernard Dobrowitsky

Amsterdam, – Midden-Europa,

Reached the age of 29 years

Occupation: Salesman & sales representative

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About Heintje Dobrowitsky-Michel and he three children.

Heintje Michel was the second of eleven children of Friedrich Michel and Lena Reiwit. She was born in Amsterdam on 4 January 1886 and married there on 8 September 1909 Joseph Dobrowitsky, a tailor by profession. Joseph was born in Kiev in what was then Russia (present-day Ukraine) on 17 January 1882 as a son of the deceased parents Jechiel Dobrowitsky and Pessa Rosenblatt.

Joseph Dobrowitsky had a…

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The fate of Abraham Bernard Dobrowitsky and his neighbor Olga Cohen

Abraham Bernard Dobrowitsky, the 3rd child of Joseph Dobrowitsky and Heintje Michel, was born on 1 December 1914 in Amsterdam. At the time, he was employed as a salesman, sales representative and as a carpenter. He was unmarried and lived since the summer of 1936 with his mother and two sisters on the 3rd floor of the Slaakstraat 8.

On the 2nd floor lived Jozeph Fritz, where in October 1941, after…

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Widow Heintje Dobrowitsky-Michel and her family

In addition, a Jokos file (number 6623) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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The Cosel period.

The period from 28 August to 12 December 1942 was known as the so-called Cosel period. Deportation trains  made a stopover at the freight station of Cosel, located 80 km west of Auschwitz. During that stop, boys and men who were considered fit for work by the Germans, were usually forcibly separated from their families and taken off the train and put to work in the surrounding labor camps of Upper

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More about the transport of 31 August 1942 from Westerbork to Auschwitz.

GENERAL REMARKS

The deportation period to be discussed now runs from 28 August to 12 December 1942, and is called the "Cosel period", because at that time a number of transports departing from the Netherlands (and also from France and Belgium) were not transported in their entirety to Auschwitz, but at the Cosel station (Upper Silesia, ± 80 K.M. west of Auschwitz), were split up, in such a way tha…

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Marriage, Mock Marriage or No Marriage ?

Abraham Bernard Dobrowitsky from 1914 was still unmarried when he lived from 23 June 1936 with his sisters Judith and Anna and his mother Heintje Dobrowitsky-Michel on the 3rd floor of Slaakstraat 8 in Amsterdam. Before that they lived at Sluisstraat 40 3rd floor. When his sister Anna got married in September 1936 and left her parental environs, Abraham Bernard was left alone with his eldest siste…

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