Henri van Stratum

Henri van Stratum, a grocery merchant, was the son of Jacob van Stratum and Anna Croonenberg. He was born in Eindhoven on 28 August 1882 and married in Antwerp on 19 September 1922 to Elisabeth Penha, who was born there on 29 March 1883 as the daughter of Mozes Penha and Rebecca Juliard. They both lived with their parents in Antwerp since 1897, where Henri later had his business at Tolstraat 49 an…

The two 22nd convoys, brought together after their departure from Mechelen, were not formed under the same circumstances. Convoy 22A was a normal transport. The letter A, from the German "Ausländisch"(foreign), means that the convoy was reserved for Jewish aliens. According to the deportation program that was set up in the summer of 1942, from June 1943 onwards, Jewish aliens should no longer be a…