Victor IJzerman

Victor IJzerman was a son of Abraham IJzerman and Mietje Hoepelman. He was born 10 August 1888 in Amsterdam and worked as processor of tobacco powder for the Trading Society Handelsvereniging v.h. B. Stuiver in the Nieuwe Kerkstraat 141 in Amsterdam, but also as a diamond polisher. Victor married in Amsterdam on 6 July 1921 Eva Stuiver, born 4 October 1892 in Amsterdam as daughter of Abraham Stuiv…

Victor IJzerman died on 12 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: gangrene and body decay (Gangraen und Körperverfall).

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

In addition, a Jokos file (number 15515) 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 for of Victor IJzerman as discovered there, stated that he died on 12 December 1942 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned a…

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…