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Jozef de Swaan

Groningen, – Mauthausen,

Reached the age of 32 years

Occupation: Merchant

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About Jozef de Swaan

Jozef de Swaan was the son of Benedictus de Swaan and Eva Wolf. He was a merchant in flowers. In 1936 he married a non-Jewish woman. The couple had no children.
Jozef de Swaan got rounded up during the great raid in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam at 22 and 23 February 1941.
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Jozef de Swaan

Jozef de Swaan was een zoon van Benedictus de Swaan en Eva Wolf. Hij is op 29 juli 1936 met Annie Poulisse getrouwd in Zaandam. (Stadsarchief Amsterdam)

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Victims of february-raids gassed in Hartheim Castle.

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 February 2021, the City Archive of Amsterdam opened the exhibition “The raids of 22 and 23 February 1941 i…

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