Hijman Kanes

Hijman Kanes was a son of Levie Kanes and Betje Koopman. He was born in Amsterdam on 16 October 1892 and earned his living as a docker in the port of Amsterdam. He married Heintje Vogel in Amsterdam on 17 June 1924, a daughter of Isaac Vogel and Trijntje Lubig. She was born on 11 March 1897.

When Heintje’s mother Trijntje Lubig passed away on 22 June 1918 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 16615) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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…

Hijman Kanes komt via Kosel in het werkkamp Tränke terecht. Daar sterft hij. Zijn kampgenoot Hans Andriesse noemt hem in zijn herinneringen.
Hans N. Andriesse, Aan een zijden draad: herinneringen van een gedeporteerde (Amsterdam 1978) 60.

Hijman Kanes was deported to Auschwitz with the transport of 2 October 1942, but was taken off the train at the intermediate stop in Cosel and put to work in one of the countless forced labor camps of the Reichsautobahn Direktion in Upper Silesia, including St. Annaberg, Bunzlau, Wiesau and Sakrau and many other labor camps, all of which were under the jurisdiction of the Gross Rosen ressort.

Hijm…