Esra Jurovics

Esra Jurovics was a ward at the youth aliyah home in Loosdrecht, the Paviljoen Loosdrechtse Rade, from 10 January 1942 until 7 December 1942. He was fluent in Hebrew and studied Tenakh.

Prior to the deportation of the pavilion around 15th august 1942 he went into hiding with Bouke Koning in Friesland. He left his hiding place in october 1942 to try to escape to Switzerland together with seven ot…

Esra's father Samuel Majer Jurovics (17.08.1888 in Kosica) was a book dealer and bible researcher. He lived with his mother Edith Jurovics-Wachsner (04.08.1895 in Neisse) and 5 siblings at Wullenweberstr. 4-5 in Berlin Tiergarten until emigration to Brussels around 1937. He then joined the Youth Alijah in Loosdrecht, while the rest of the family moved to Amsterdam on 17.11.1938, then on to London …

Esra Jurovics had a brother Benjamin who survived the war and lived in 1999 in Israel. His brother Rafael survived the war as well, and is also in Israel. Moishe Miller from Brooklyn (moishe@langsam.com) made a genealogical tree of the family, so maybe he can tell you more about the father.

Esra came to the Netherlands on December 21st, 1939: he came, indeed, from Brussels, and was exchanged for another boy, who went to Belgium.

Esra could not be at the Youth Aliya Home in Loosdrecht until 7. December 1942, because, according to the transport lists of the Yad Vashem archives he was deported to Auschwitz on 3. November 1942. Therefore he must have gone into hiding in Friesland earlier.

He is also commemorated on a memorial in Kibbutz Sheluhot in Israel, where his sister Miriam is a member.

Esra was born on 1. Febru…

My aunt Edith Wachsner was a cousin of my father, Alfredo Simenauer. My father and mother, my brother Stewart and I (Sonia) lived at 17 Sheriff Road, London between 1947 and about 1951.

Bron: http://www.dokin.nl/deceased-children/esra-jurovics-born-1-feb-1925

Esra Jurovics werd geboren op 1 februari 1925 in Berlijn. In de jaren dertig vluchtte hij naar Nederland en kwam in het Paviljoen Loosdrechtsche Rade, waar een groep Duits-sprekende Joodse jongeren verbleef die zonder ouders of andere familie na 1938 naar Nederland gevlucht waren. Zij stonden bekend als alijah-jeugd of Palestina-pioniers. Ze behoorden bij de zionistische beweging die ernaar streef…