Eliazar van Embden

Eliazer van Embden had a business in textile. Before the war he moved to Antwerpen where he had a warehouse and a shop. Once a year he travelled to South Africa where he also owned a warehouse. The sale of clothing to South African farmers showed up to be very lucrative. When the war broke out Eliazer van Embden went back to Antwerpen.
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Eliazer (Elias) van Embden, geb. 18.10.1884 te Rotterdam, is op 24.08.1942 met transport no. 23 vanuit het Franse doorgangskamp Drancy naar Auschwitz gedeporteerd.

Zijn beroep was koopman.

Zijn laatste adres was in Antwerpen, België, met de Nederlandse nationaliteit.

Zijn naam komt voor op een lijst van gevangenen in Belfort achter no.5. Dit betekent dat hij tesamen met zijn echtgenote Sarah van E…

Eliazar van Embden got divorced from his first wife in 1915. The couple had one child. On January 12, 1916 he got married to Sara Slier, who was a daughter of Jacob Slier and Flora Blazer. In 1927, the couple moved to Antwerp. Several years later they returned to Rotterdam, where they settled at the Nieuwe Markt.
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Eliazar van Embden and his wife Sara van Embden-Slier crossed the border to Switzerland on August 18, 1942. The Swiss border had been strictly closed by a government decree on August 4, implemented by a circular on August 13. The van Embdens were put into jail in Porrentruy. On the day after, Swiss police brought them back to the border and forced them back into occupied France near Belfort or Sai…