Benjamin Gokkes

Benjamin Gokkes, son of David Gokkes and Rachel Rimini, was born on 6 August 1905 in Amsterdam. He was a teacher by profession. When his parents moved from Uithoornstraat 6 to Newtonstraat 62 on 6 September 1932, Benjamin also moved to another address: Pythagorasstraat 10 in Amsterdam, where he was given living space with the family of the teacher OLO Jacob Isaac Arenowitz. But on 26 October 1932 …

Benjamin Gokkes werd op 6 augustus 1905 te Amsterdam geboren als zoon van David Gokkes en Rachel Rimini. Hier bezocht hij de lagere school en vervolgens het Barlaeus Gymnasium. In Amsterdam studeerde hij Romaanse Talen en Letterkunde. Op 6 november 1928 deed hij zijn kandidaatsexamen, terwijl op 2 juni 1931 het doctoraalexamen Frans en Italiaans cum laude werd afgelegd. Op 15 december 1931 werd hi…

Camp Neukirch

Camp Neukirch was a labor camp close to the former city of Breslau, now Wroclaw. A number of Dutch Jewish men who belonged to the so-called Kosel group died in this camp. The Kosel group concerns Jewish men between the ages of 16 and 50 who were taken from the train at Kosel station during a number of transports from Westerbork to Auschwitz in the period from August 28 to December 12…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 1641) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for :
- securities or bonds. (W-claim, number C173/74.C81/685)
- valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 4032/19901)

Benjamin Gokkes was rector of the Joods Lyceum (Jewish secondary school) in Den Bosch during the years 1941-1942. Besides that he teached French language and literature.
Addition of a visitor of the website

Benjamin en Eva Gokkes worden beschreven in het boek `Het verhaal van Edith´ door Edith Velmans-van Hessen.

Intro (from page 12 sub 6.)

An overview of the transport of 10 November 1942, stating the number of deportees and the number of persons fit for work, who are estimated to have disembarked in Cosel, as well as the overall routes followed (i.e. the camps, in which large groups of the transport were successively placed until the arrival in Blechhammer, in the Gross Rosen resort, in the Auschwitz-Birk…