Hartog Wijnschenk

Hartog Wijnschenk, a son of Aaron Wijnschenk and Leentje Korper, was born on 1 February 1890 in Amsterdam. He was a fishmonger by trade and he married on 1 March 1911 in Amsterdam Helena Lakmaker, who was born there on 9 September 1889 as a daughter of Abraham Lakmaker and Rachel Beesemer. The couple had four children, namely Rachel, Aäron, Abraham and Leentje, of whom Aäron has died already befor…

Hartog Wijnschenk,  a son of Aäron Wijnschenk and Leentje Korper, married in 1911 Helena Lakmaker. The couple had four children, of whom one child died in 1938. Helena Lakmaker passed in 1939. In May 1941 Hartog Wijnschenk remarried Eva Delden; the couple had a son in 1942.
City Archive of Amsterdam, archive card of Hartog Wijnschenk

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…