Jacobus de Leeuw

Jacobus de Leeuw, wholesaler in meat by profession, was the youngest son of Abraham de Leeuw and Betje Zeehandelaar. He married 15 December 1921 in Amsterdam Maria Wolff, a daughtrer of David Wolff, a commissioner from Nijmegen and Clara Jessurun Lobo from Amsterdam. Jacobus and Maria had two children, namely David in 1923 and Betty in 1930. The family lived at Rijnstraat 76 1^st floor in Amsterdam…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 18022) 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…