Eliazer van Geuns

Eliazer van Geuns was a son of Hartog van Geuns and Kaatje van Biene. He was born in Rotterdam on 10 October 1890 but his parents came to Amsterdam already in 1893. He married 27 August 1919 in Amsterdam to Frederika Tas, who was born in the municipality of Nieuwer Amstel on 13 October 1894 as a daughter of Levie Tas and Clara Velt. The Van Geuns couple had two children: in 1921 Hartog was born an…

Eliazer van Geuns died on 5 January 1943 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: gangrene and heart failure (Gangraen und Herzschwäche.).

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

Eliazer is een zoon van Hartog Geuns en Kaatje van Biene. Hij trouwde 27 augustus 1919 met Frederika Tas (Nieuwer Amstel, 13 oktober 1894), dochter van Levie Tas en Clara Velt.

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Hartog, 31 maart 1921
Kind, 1922

Bron SAA archiefkaart Eliazer Geuns 10-10-1890 en wiewaswie.nl (huwelijk Eliazer van Geuns)

In addition, Jokos files (number 4083) on this family or other family members are at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos files reveal that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 7424/9072).

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 Eliazer van Geuns as discovered there, stated that he died on 5 Januar 1943  in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an o…

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…