Biography

About Willem Worms

Willem Worms was a son of Emanuel Worms and Vrouwtje Cohen. He married in Amsterdam on 19 January 1916 to Sara van West. The couple had a daughter Frederika Worms.

On 30 July 1925 the whole family Worms (Willem, Sara and Frederika) moved to Antwerp. The 29th of August 1942, Willem and Sara were deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz with Convoy VI(6). 

On 24 October 1957 the Court of the First Instance in Antwerpen has established that Willem Worms and his spouse Sara Worms-van West have died on 29 August 1942 at an unknown place.

Genlias and the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of  David van West; the Memorial of the Deportation of the Belgian Jews and the Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, nr. 183146/image 319 and 321.