Isidore Brandon

Isidore Brandon was the first of the four children of Joseph Brandon and Klaartje Roe. He was born on 1 December 1900 at Blasiusstraat 114 in Amsterdam East. He had two more sisters and a brother; Estella was born in 1902, followed by Jacob in 1905 and Margaretha in 1907. His brother Jacob, with his wife and daughter, took their own lives on 15 May 1940 “under pressure of circumstances”. Estella a…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 33105) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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…

Isidore Brandon was arrested on April 17, 1942 and stood trial (with eight others) before the Special Court on September 10, 1942. Brandon was sentenced to six months in prison, minus pre-trial detention. According to a letter from the “Justizoberinspektor” to the Security Police (Sicherheits Dienst), he is serving his sentence in the German penitentiary at Wolvenplein in Utrecht, ending on Octobe…

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An overview of the transport of 10 November 1942, stating the number of deportees and the number of persons fit for work, who are estimated to have disembarked in Cosel, as well as the overall routes followed (i.e. the camps, in which large groups of the transport were successively placed until the arrival in Blechhammer, in the Gross Rosen resort, in the Auschwitz-Birk…