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Herdenk Cyon Kon

Cyon Kon

Biezun, – Midden-Europa,

Reached the age of 22 years

Occupation: Leather worker

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The fate of Cyon Kon and his wife Esther Agsteribbe.

The Kon family, consisting of Mosiek Markus Kon, born in Plock, Poland in 1878, his wife Chana Dydakov, born in Biezun, Poland in 1882, and their children Hersz, Icek, Estera Brana, Cyon and Szymon, all born in Plock in Poland, arrived from Plock in Amsterdam in July 1931. 

After their settling in Amsterdam, where in the beginning they have lived at different addresses, their children got married …

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Joodsche HBS pictures

Number 83 on this school picture.

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Mosiek Markus Kon and his family

In addition, a Jokos file (number 33764) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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The Cosel period.

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

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