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Gerrit Barend

Amsterdam, – Seibersdorf,

Reached the age of 15 years

Occupation: Tailor

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About Abraham Barend, his wife Anna Naarden and their children Gerrit, Isaäc and Barend.

Abraham Barend was a son of Gerrit Barend and Heintje Visser and born on 11 August 1905 in Amsterdam. He started his career as an errand boy, became an apprentice baker and eventually he was a bread baker by profession. On 9 February 1927 he married Anna Naarden in Amsterdam, who was born on 16 February 1907 as a daughter of Isaäc Naarden and Lena Vecht. The couple had three children, namely Gerri…

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Abraham Barend and his family

In addition, a Jokos file (number 4217) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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The Cosel period.

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

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About one of the so-called "Kosel-camps: Seibersdorf

Part of the text on page 223 from volume 8 of Dr. L. de Jong: conditions in the Seibersdorf forced labor camp, located in the south of Poland near the Czech border:

Just as in Bobrek, a new camp had to be built in Seibersdorf. "During the day," according to a member of the Kosel group, "we had to work on the railroad tracks and in the evening on the construction of the camp. There was hardly any w…

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Het raadsel Seibersdorf

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Bij mijn onderzoek naar een Joodse familie stuit ik op het feit dat de persoon in kwestie is omgebracht/overleden in Seibersdorf. Geen idee waar in Europa ik dit moet zoeken en wat het inhoud. Op Joodsmonument zelf staat een heel kort stukje uit het werk van Prof L. de Jong m.b.t. de zogenaamde Cosel-transporten. Goed, dus dan maar Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ... erbij gepakt en …

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