Elias Friedman Parfumeur

Elias Friedman Parfumeur was a merchant. He tried to escape to Switzerland but was caught in France at the Swiss border.

Elias Friedman Parfumeur, geb. 23.03.1918 te Amsterdam, is op 23.06.1943 met transport no.55 vanuit het Franse doorgangskamp Drancy naar Auschwitz gedeporteerd.

Hij woonde in Nederland, Zuider Amstellaan 203 te Amsterdam.

Hij is de enige van het gezin Parfumeur die opgaf op dit adres te wonen, of het III-hoog was is niet terug te zien op de lijst in onderstaande bron.

Hij gaf op van beroep industr…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 33452) 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 valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 9145/12997).

Elias Parfumeur fled the Netherlands on July 27, 1942 together with a friend, Hans Sternberg, in order to reach non occupied France or Switzerland, probably assuming only working age men would be deported to work camps. They reached Lyons and were allowed to stay under control. In the first days of September, Vichy France having launched roundups of foreign Jews, Elias and Hans fled to Switzerland…