Emiel Meijers

Emiel Meijers, the youngest of the eight children of Izaak Meijers and Johanna de Winter, was born on 10 May 1907 in Doetinchem. He married Willemina Matje Godschalk (Willy) in Den Helder on 29 April 1932, a daughter of Maurits Godschalk from Ommen and Leentje Coltof from Gorredijk. Willy was born in Ommen on 11 February 1911.

Emiel Meijers earned his living as a metal dealer and lived with his wi…

The Arnhem police commissioner requested that Emiel Meijers and his wife Wilhelmina Matje Meijers-Godschalk, residing in Arnhem, be located, detained and brought to trial. They were suspected of having changed their place of residence without the required authorization. This description referred to Jews who had gone into hiding.
Algemeen Politieblad, nr 39, 1 October 1942, 1114, notice 2129


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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…

Het hoofdstuk "Koningstraat 58-60, Den Helder" , geschreven door Gerko Warner, wat begint vanaf blz. 77 in "Joodse Huizen 4", uitgegeven door het Gibbon Uitgeefagentschap uit Amsterdam, begint met de geboorte van Jacob Salomon Godschalk die op 21 Maart 1914 in Ommen ter wereld kwam als zoon van het ondernemersgezin van Maurits Godschalk en zijn vrouw Leentje. In 1921  verhuisde  Jacob Salomon (Jaa…

21-year-old Willemina Matje Godschalk, usually called Willy, married 24-year-old Emiel Meijers from Doetinchem  on 29 April 1932, who was born there on 10 May 1907 as the youngest son of Izaak Meijers and Johanna de Winter. Willy had four children with Emiel. Emiel Meijers was born in a family of eight children, namely Abraham, Jacob, Elizabeth, Eduard, Leopold, Isedore, Michel and Emiel himself. …