Isidore Eduard Kaas

Isidore Eduard Kaas, born 30 May 1900 in Amsterdam, was a son of Joël Kaas and Schoontje Wolf Beffie. On 26 July 1920 he arrived in Den Haag, still unmarried and worked there as foreman in a tobacco factory. He lived at Van Speijkstraat 120 but left for Amsterdam again on 17 May 1921, where he came living at Muidergracht 79.

In 1935 he returned to Den Haag and in the meantime had a job there as of…

Isidore Eduard Kaas died on 30 November 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: myocarditis (Herzmuskelentzündung).

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

In addition, a Jokos file (number 18214) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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 Isidore Eduard Kaas as discovered there, stated that he died on 30 November 1942 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned …

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…