Biography

About Jeannette Dwinger and her husband Samuel Simon.

Jeannette (Netty) Dwinger, daugther of Aron Dwinger and Fronika Dwinger, was engaged 19 April 1942 to Samuel (Sam) Simon, a son of Julius Simon and Betje Jacoba Meijer. After the engagment, Netty and Sam were married.

As the registration card of Jeannette Simon-Dwinger failed in the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, there is the suspicion that Jeannette was deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 19 October 1942 and on arrival there on 22 October 1942 has been killed.

Samuel Simon was deported 9 October 1942 to Auschwitz after he has arrived in Westerbork from the labor camp De Bruine Enk in Nunspeet. The transport of  9 October of more than 1700 deportees, did not stop at Kozel (where often men were forced to leave the train to be employed then as forced laborers in the surrounding camps there), but went straight to Auschwitz.  Based on his date of death at the end of January 1943, it can be ascertained  that on arrival in Auschwitz, Samuel Simon was not selected for the gas chambers but for forced labor in or outside the camp. The exact location and date of death of Samuel Simon is not known but has been established as died in Auschwitz on 31 January 1943.

Sources: Jewish Weekly (Joodsche Weekblad) 10 April 1942, engagement advertisement; website wiewaswie.nl; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Samuel Simon; the Wikipedia listing of Jew Transports from the Netherlands and the Historical Center of Overijssel, death certificates of Jeannete Simon-Dwinger made out in Almelo 24 November 1950, nr. 551 and of Samuel Simon, made out in Almelo 10 November 1950, nr. 519.

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