Alexander Sealtiel

Alexander Sealtiel was the first born son from the second wedding of his father Benjamin Sealtiel to Sophia Booleman. Alexander was born 12 June 1895 in Amsterdam; he was a commercial traveller and diamond polisher by profession. In 1897 his sister Rachel was born. His father Benjamin Sealtiel passed away in 1902 at the age of 47 years. His first wife Rachel Dreese died already in 1892, leaving hi…

Alexander Sealtiel died on 9 January 1943 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: left-sided pneumonia, and general body weakness (linksseitige Lungenentzündung und allgemeine Körperschwäche).

Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).

In addition, a Jokos file (number 50283) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Research into the wartime civil registries of one of the civil registry offices in Upper Silesias (Poland) discovered many records that corresponded to deaths of inmates from the "Reichsautobahnlager Annaburg" and "Zwangsarbeitslager Niederkirch" camps.

A certificate of death Alexander Sealtiel as discovered there, stated that he died on 9 Januar 1943 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an offic…

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…

Benjamin Sealtiel, born 9 Februari 1859, son of Jozef Sealtiel and Abigael Jacob Benavente, married the first time on 19 May 1875 to Rachel Dreese. She was born 15 January 1856 as daughter of Isaac Dreese and Sara Aron van den Berg. From this first marriage, six children were born, namely Jozef, Sara, Esther, Schoontje, Debora and Anna. Schoontje and Debora died already in childhood: Schoontje at …