Jacob Salomons

Machiel Salomons, a traveling salesman by profession, was the third of the seven children of the then 35-year-old teacher Simon Salomons and Sprins Wagenaar and was born in Plantage Doklaan 7 Amsterdam on 3 July 1891. His youngest sister Esther was born on 14 July 1888, his brother Alexander on 14 July 1890, Nanette on 1 October 1892, Abraham on 28 November 1893, Leon on 4 April 1895, however, he …

In addition, a Jokos file (number 10444) 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…

The transport of 30 October 1942 from Westerbork is, just like some previous transports, a not very surveyable transport. It consisted of 659 deportees, of which 200 "fit for work" boys and men between 15 and 50 years old were forced to leave the train at a stopover in Cosel to be used as forced laborers in the surrounding labor camps.

From Cosel all went to St. Annaberg and from there either earl…