Abraham Baruch

Abraham Baruch, born 26 February 1896 in Nieuweschans, was a son of the 32-year old Izaak Baruch and the 30-year of age Annechien Goldsmid. Abraham was a livestock trader, just like his father; he married in Nieuwe Pekela Betje de Levie, who was born there on 28 February 1903 as daughter of the livestock trader Levie de Levie and Dientje Nathan. The couple had a daughter Diena, who was born in 193…

Abraham Baruch died on 30 November 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: right-sided pneumonia (rechtsseitige Lungenentzündung).

Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).

Abraham Baruch was a cattle dealer. He had much contact with dealers and customers in the province of Groningen. A then fellow trader from Winschoten has received a letter from the Baruch family from Westerbork in which they say thanks for clothing and footwear. The letter also describes the miserable situation in the camp. After the war, the letter was deposited at the Camp Westerbork Memorial Ce…

Research into the wartime civil registries of one of the civil registry offices in Upper Silesias (Poland) discovered many records that corresponded to deaths of inmates from the "Reichsautobahnlager Annaburg" and "Zwangsarbeitslager Niederkirch" camps.

A certificate of death for Abraham Baruch, as discovered there, stated that he died on  30 November 1942  in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an…

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…