Izaak Wurms was a son of Ruben Wurms and Clara Hamburg, and was born on 16 November 1914 in Amsterdam. He lived with his parents at Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 10, 1st floor. He became a bicycle boy, then he was a casual worker on the market and later he became an apprentice diamond worker and learned …
On 22 and 23 Febuary 1941, raids took place in Amsterdam, in which 390 Jewish men were arrested and deported. Only two of them survived. A recent investigation has shown that more than 100 men were gassed in Hartheim Castle, while Mauthausen was established as the official place of death.
In Februa…