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Szlama Lajb
Markowicz
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Bar-Mitzva party for Herman Horn in 1941 with his family. From left to the right Szlama Lajb Markovicz, husband of Esther Michel; father Moszek (Max) Horn; mother Elizabeth Horn-Michel; unknown; Abraham Bernard Michel with the glasses; his wife Esther Cohen with glasses; unknown; Levie van Kollem husband of the far right standing Jeannette van Kollem-Michel and the Bar-Mitzvaboy Herman Horn.
Picture made at the Boerhaavestraat 66 te Amsterdam in 1941.
Private collection.
Szlama Lajb Markowicz was born in Prascka in Poland on 28 December 1896 as a son of Simsia Markowicz and Rijwka Kopistlowska. In the early 1920s, Szlama Lajb arrived in the Netherlands from Poland. He lived there in Dolina at Warsawerstrasse 55 and in the Netherlands he was from the beginning of Aug…
In addition, a Jokos file (number 11227) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.
Deportation periods in 1943
Apart from the "Sobibor period" (2 March to 20 July 1943), two deportation periods can be distinguished in 1943, viz. the period from 11 January to 2 February 1943, in which 9 transports left directly for Auschwitz, viz. 8 from Westerbork and 1 from Apeldoorn (for the sa…