Chaim Selig Hermele

Chaim Selig Hermele was married to Rosetta van Esso. They were both fur workers by trade. On 25 November 1943 their son Jehuda was born in Westerbork transit camp.
Record of birth certificates of the Westerbork municipality, currently at the archives of Gemeente Midden-Drenthe in Beilen

"Arbeitslager Oud Leusden” was a labor camp near Camp Amersfoort. The official name of Camp Amersfoort was” Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort”, abbreviated PDA.

From 18 August 1941, the PDA was in use until the spring of 1943, when it was closed for a short time to be renovated and expanded and more and more prisoners were sent to Amersfoort. They all had to be put to work. Companies in the…

The person who is mentioned on this page, belonged to a group of approximately 70 men who were “lent” from the Vught concentration camp to the PDA, the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort, on 20 May 1943. They were housed and put to work in the Labor camp “Oud Leusden”, to dig a shooting range for tanks at the Infantry Barracks on the corner of Van Campenstraat in Amersfoort. Because of their…