Nico Andriesse

Nico Andriesse, was the middle of the three children of Salomon Andriesse and his wife Rosa Andriesse. Nico was born on 4 July 1919 in Eindhoven. His father and his mother had settled in Eindhoven on 31 January 1916 and lived at Kleine Berg 34 in the center of the city, where also his sister Elisabeth was born in 1917. Like his father, Nico also became a cattle trader. He lived in Eindhoven at Ges…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 32047) on this household is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 235/10109).

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…

GENERAL REMARKS

The deportation period to be discussed now runs from 28 August to 12 December 1942, and is called the "Cosel period", because at that time a number of transports departing from the Netherlands (and also from France and Belgium) were not transported in their entirety to Auschwitz, but at the Cosel station (Upper Silesia, ± 80 K.M. west of Auschwitz), were split up, in such a way tha…