Helga Heijmans

The police commissioner in charge of the juvenile police in Amsterdam requested that the minor Helga Heijmans, residing at 340 Uiterwaardenstraat in Amsterdam and missing since 25 November 1942, be located and returned. This description referred to Jews who had gone into hiding. Identifying characteristics: 'about 5'7" tall, sturdy build, long, light-blonde hair, blue eyes; attire: brown overcoat,…

Lion Heijmans was a son of Heiman Hertz Heijmans and Jula Cossmann. He married Martha Linz on 27 April 1918. Four children were born to the couple, two of whom survived the war. In 1917, Lion Heijmans took over C. Cossmann’s manufacturing business at Sternstrasse 9 in Borken, in Germany. In 1928 he rented a two-storey house from the city of Borken, at Mühlenstrasse 13, which became both the family…