Joël van Tijn

Joël van Tijn, born in Utrecht on 25 January 1908, son of Izaak van Tijn and Saartje van Meer, lived in January 1930 with his parents and brothers in the Kuipersstraat in Amsterdam. They came from Magdalenastraat 1 in Utrecht to Amsterdam, where father Izaak had been attendant of the Israelitic Orphanage.

Joël was not married but did have a child that survived the war. (An addition from a visitor …

The transport of 19 October 1943 (Westerbork-Auschwitz), which had departed the day before by train from Camp Vught, comprised 1007 deportees, of which the majority of the men selected on arrival, who were considered fit for work, were put to work in Warsaw after 4 weeks in "quarantine", and a smaller part was sent to the coal mines at Jawischowitz, while nothing more was heard of the women after …