Nathan Frank

Nathan Frank was a son of Hartog Frank and Mietje Smeer. He married in Amsterdam on 17 August 1916 Vrouwtje Pront, a daughter of Leendert Pront and Elisabeth Arbeid. The couple had two children, namely Elizabeth, born 28 May 1917 and Mietje on 28 May 1921.

After his wedding in 1916 Nathan lived with his spouse Vrouwtje Pront at Tweede Oosterparkstraat 31 in Amsterdam-East. Nathan was a casual labo…

Nathan is een zoon van Hartog Frank en Mietje Smeer. Hij trouwde 17 augustus 1916 met Vrouwtje Pront (26 jaar), dochter van Leendert Pront en Elisabeth Arbeid.

Bron wiewaswie.nl (huwelijk Nathan Frank en Vrouwtje Pront)

Nathan Frank died on 11 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: gangrene and general body weakness (Gangraen und allgemeine Körperschwäche).

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

In addition, a Jokos file (number 12770) 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 Nathan Frank as discovered there, stated that he died on 11 December 1942  in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an off…

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…