Jacob Meijer Groen

Jacob Groen, born in 1920 in Den Haag, was a son of Mozes Groen and Rachel Leidensdorff. He was a window dresser and unmarried. Since November 1934 he lived with his parents and sister Suze at Jan van Riebeeckstraat 81 in Den Haag.

Jacob Groen was deported from Den Haag to Westerbork 4 October 1942 and put on transport to "the East" 5 October. This transport of in total 2012 persons was the 1st tr…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 10589) on this family 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 4379/18908).

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…

In the vicinity of the village of Blechhammer there were a number of forced labor camps with a total of about 50,000 forced laborers. One of these camps was later transformed into concentration camp Blechhammer, an outlying camp of the concentration camp KZ Auschwitz III Monowitz. There the Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke made out gasoline of coal and was the largest forced labor camp of the "Organiz…