Simon David

Simon David, the son of Isaac David and Elizabeth Velleman, still living at home with his parents and who worked as an office clerk, was born in Rotterdam on 21 June 1897 and was given the surname Velleman from his mother at birth. On 30 March 1903, seven months after Isaac David and Elizabeth Velleman were married in August 1902, it was recorded in a deed that Isaac David and Elizabeth Velleman “…

The period from 28 August to 12 December 1942 was known as the so-called Cosel period. Deportation trains  made a stopover at the freight station of Cosel, located 80 km west of Auschwitz. During that stop, boys and men who were considered fit for work by the Germans, were usually forcibly separated from their families and taken off the train and put to work in the surrounding labor camps of Upper…