Hartog Porcelijn

Hartog Porcelijn was a son of Salomon Porcelijn and Rika Augurk. He was born on 2 Febuary 1911 in Amsterdam and he was unmarried. He lived at Nieuwe Keizersgracht 1c 3^rd floor in Amsterdam and he was a ballet dancer by profession.

With his parents and sibs he lived shortly in Nijmegen in 1924 but per October of that year, they returned in Amsterdam but then lived at different addresses in the city…

This person is commemorated on the monument Schaduwkade, Nieuwe Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. The names of the 200 Jewish residents of this street have been engraved on the opposite side from their former homes.

In addition, a Jokos file (number 6591) on this person is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

According to the "Sterbebücher" (death records) of Auschwitz, Hartog Porcelijnt was murdered there on 20 August 1942. This date is different from the official date of death as determined by the Dutch Ministry of Justice after the war. For the time being, the website joodsmonument.nl, list only the dates of death, as published at the time in the "Staatscourant" by the Ministry of Justice.

Sterbebuc…

A list of Jewish prisoners newly arrived stored in the Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau were made by prisoners working in the admissions office (Aufnahmebüro) of Political Department (Politische Abteilungt). Names of Jewish newly arrived inmates are written according to the number order.
The document is a source of information about 10.089 Jewish men prisoners deported from different places to Au…

The mortuary book was kept by Stanisław Ryszler (no. 16439), a kapo of Leichenträger kommando. Leichentrager kommando was responsible for taking corpses of dead prisoners or prisoners killed in the camp hospital, prisoners shot against the Death Wall, prisoners hanged at the assembly square or prisoners who died in residual blocks to the mortuary located in the basement of Block 28.

The mortuary b…

The so-called Sterbebücher of Auschwitz includes nearly 69.000 official certificates of death, made out in the camp between July 1941 and December 1943.