Benjamin Wolf

Benjamin Wolf, born in 1888 in Den Haag as son of David Wolf and Elisabeth de Vries, married 5 October 1920 in Rotterdam Elizabeth Hofstede, a daughter of David Hofstede and Leentje van Trommel. The couple had two children, both born in Rotterdam: David in 1920 and Izak in 1922.

Benjamin Wolf, a dealer in metals, lived since 14 February 1911 in Rotterdam, among others in Van Alkemadestraat 44 and …

David Wolf, the father of the Wolf family, was a police officer. He was born 3 January 1843 in Hof van Delft as son of the butcher Levie Wolf and Sara Groen. David Wolf passed away in Den Haag 10 May 1925.

The first marriage of David Wolf

On 1 September 1869 he married Sara Sons in Den Haag, a daughter of Mozes Abraham Sons and Rebecca Abraham van Winter. She was born 12 September 1836 in Amsterda…

Benjamin Wolf is een zoon van David Wolf en Elisabeth de Vries. Hij trouwde 5 februari 1920 met Elizabeth Hofstede (35 jaar), dochter van David Hofstede en Leentje van Trommel.

Bron wiewaswie.nl (huwelijk Benjamin Wolf)

Benjamin Wolf died on 29 November 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: heart failure (Herzschwäche).

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

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 Benjamin Wolf as discovered there, stated that he died on 29 November 1942 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an off…

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…