Hermanus Vet

Hermanus Vet, born 11 March 1893 in Amsterdam, was a son of Eliazar Vet and Elizabeth Kijzer and he was “clothes presser” by profession. On 4 January 1923 he married in Amsterdam the tailor Rosetta Vorst, born 29 May 1890 in Amsterdam as daughter of Philip Vorst and Koosje Wagenaar. The parents of Hermanus Vet and of his wife Rosetta Vorst however had passed away already before the war.

After his …

Hermanus Vet died on 7 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: right-sided pneumonia and general body weakness (rechtsseitige Lungenentzündung und allgemeine Körperschwäche).

Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).

Hermanus Vet and Rosetta Vorst got married in January 1923 in Amsterdam.
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In addition, a Jokos file (number 14731) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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 Hermanus Vet as discovered there, stated that he died on 7 December 1942  in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an offi…

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…