Zacharias Pront

Zacharias Pront was a son of Abraham Pront and Rachel Katwijk. He was born on 7 July 1924 in Antwerp and he became a machine fitter by profession. Until September 1940 they remained living in Belgium at their last address Bixschotellaan 155 in Berchem. Then they moved over to Amsterdam again and came living in the Vrolikstraat 249 and in May 1941 Zacharias moved with his parents to Ruyschstraat 95…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 6195) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 9787/4323).

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…

Some parts, copied and translated from the Dutch Wikipedia website BUCHENWALD. The link refers however to another English site about Buchenwald.

The new Lagerkommandant of Buchenwald was Hermann Pister, he took office in January 1942. In that year an arms factory was built, and thousands of Soviet forced laborers came to the camp. Disabled groups were transferred to Dachau, Jews to Auschwitz. It w…