Mozes de Jong

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, commercial correspondent, bookkeeper and he worked also as an agent on a basis of commission.

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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).

A Liro card exists for this person or family. The original cards are kept at the Nationaal Archief (National Archive) at The Hague.

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 discovered there, stated that he died on 10 December 1942 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an off…

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…