Jacob de Jong

Jacob de Jong, merchant by profession, was a son of David de Jong and Sara Cohen and was born in Haarlem on 30 April 1910. He married on 24 August 1942 in the synagogue of Haarlem to Saartje Wijtvliet, who was born on 14 May 1920 in Rotterdam as daughter of Alida Velleman and Everhardus Wijtvliet. Jacob de Jong had an eight-year elder sister Maria, who was married to the dealer in woolen goods Moz…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 55729) on this person 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…