Jacob Worms was a son of Salomon Worms and Mietje Furth and was born on 25 January 1910 in Amsterdam. He started his working career as butcher, but changed profession and became a diamond worker, just like his father. He stayed with his parents and siblings many times in Borgerhout and Deurne (Antwerp) in Belgium.
Coming from Vrolikstraat 54 3rd floor, the address of his parents at the time, Jacob came to live in with Mozes Springer and Sophie Schelvis at Nieuwe Prinsengracht 88 3rd floor in Amsterdam at the end of December 1927. His brother Leendert also lives there, who was married to their daughter Bloeme Springer.
It appeared that Jacob started to work as a butcher, but early January 1929 Jacob left as an apprentice diamon worker to Deurne (Antwerp) where he came to live in the Jos Schuerweghstraat 58. In the years that followed , Jacob travelled back and forth between Deurne and Amsterdam several times.
On 17May 1933 Jacob Worms married Margaretha Agsteribbe in Amsterdam. She was born on 1 January 1911 as daughtr of Israel Agsteribbe and Marianne Lijmer. After their wedding ceremony, Jacob and Margaretha moved into a house at Lepelstraat 53 3rd floor in Amsterdam, where on 10 February 1936 their daugther Marianne was born. Jacob was a diamond polisher by trade.
Possibly in order to avoid employment in the so-called Jewish labor camps in the Northern Netherlands, Jacob Worms and his family were gone into hiding. That did not workout well, however, because on October 4, 1942 they were brought into Westerbork.
On 2 October 1942, all Jewish labor camps were also liquidated by order of the German occupier and all Jewish forced laborers were transported to Westerbork. At the same time, major raids were held in Amsterdam, causing about 15,000 Jews to end up in Westerbork on 3, 4 and 5 Ocober 1942, where it was a great chaos at that time.
Details of their registration cards from the Jewish Council file cabinet indicate nothing else than that they were already deported to Auschwitz the next day, on 5 October 1942. That transport of 2012 deportees also included the first 10,000 prisoners from the liquidated Jewish labor camps. The transport made a stop at Kozel, located ±80 km west from Auschwitz, where 550 boys and men between 15 and 50 years were forced to leave the train, to be deployed as forced labourers in the surrounding labor camps in the region.
Those who remained in the train were transported onwards to Auschwitz, to be killed there upon arrival in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Among them also Margaretha Worms-Agsteribbe and their daughter Marianne, who were killed there on 8 October 1942.
It is more than likely that Jacob Worms belonged to that group of 550 prisoners who had to get off the train in Kozel. However, it is not known where Jacob ended up and when and under what circumstances he lost his life. After the war, the Dutch Ministry of Justice ordered the municipality of Amsterdam to draw up a death certificate for Jacob Worms, stating that he died on 31 August 1943 in Mid-Europe.
Sources include the Felix Archive, dossier of foreigners no. 1170-272882 from the Municipality of Deurne for Salomon Worms; City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Salomon Worms, Jacob Worms and Israel Agsteribbe, archive cards of Jacob Worms and Margaretha Agsteribbe, some Amsterdam residence cards; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Jacob Worms, Margaretha Worms-Agsteribbe and Marianne Worms; death certificate for Jacob Worms,made out in Amsterdam on 18 January 1952, No.28 from A-register, folio 6verso and the wikipedia list of Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.