Wilhelm Max Halberstam

Wilhelm Max Halberstam died on 4 October 1943 in Westerbork transit camp and he was cremated on the same day. The urn with his ashes was placed on the Jewish cemetry in Diemen on field U, row 12, grave nr. 25.
Register van joden die in het kamp Westerbork zijn gecremeerd, 1943-1944; archief van de gemeente Westerbork, opgenomen in het archief van de gemeente Midden-Drenthe te Beilen, inv. n 3789

One of the Halberstam children emigrated to Chile before the war. The family members kept up a lively correspondence, expressing their fears, their hope and their despair. The story of the Halberstam family is told in the book Lieve kinderen (Amsterdam 1998) by I. Wojak and L. Hepner.