Barend Barend

Barend Barend was the third of the twelve children of Gerrit Barend and Heintje Visser. He was born on 4 May 1897 in Amsterdam and married there Sara Premselaar from Amsterdam, who was born there on 5 April 1897 as a daughter of Aäron Premselaar and Jette Koe. Barend and Sara had one daughter, named Jettie, who was born on 22 November 1929. When Barend’s younger sister Lena married on 20 November …

In addition, a Jokos file (number 4214) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 449/13113).

According to a list with shops of Jewish owners, compiled by the A…

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…

Part of the text on page 223 from volume 8 of Dr. L. de Jong: conditions in the Seibersdorf forced labor camp, located in the south of Poland near the Czech border:

Just as in Bobrek, a new camp had to be built in Seibersdorf. "During the day," according to a member of the Kosel group, "we had to work on the railroad tracks and in the evening on the construction of the camp. There was hardly any w…

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Bij mijn onderzoek naar een Joodse familie stuit ik op het feit dat de persoon in kwestie is omgebracht/overleden in Seibersdorf. Geen idee waar in Europa ik dit moet zoeken en wat het inhoud. Op Joodsmonument zelf staat een heel kort stukje uit het werk van Prof L. de Jong m.b.t. de zogenaamde Cosel-transporten. Goed, dus dan maar Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ... erbij gepakt en …