Louis Salomons

Jeannette Blog, a daughter of Samuel Blog and Leentje Fransman, was the first of a twin: Jeannette was born at Ruijschstraat 64 in Amsterdam on 14 December 1914 just as her twin sister Roza.

Her father, Samuel Blog, then aged 18, went already in June 1908, together with his father Gompel Blog to Antwerp. Three weeks later Samuel’s mother Netje Vischschraper followed with his sisters Judith and Ros…

Louis Salomons, born in Amsterdam on 8 April 1900, was a son of Meijer Salomons (1863) and Bloeme de Paauw. His father Meijer was in the diamond trade: he was a diamond cutter and jeweler by profession. Louis also traded in diamonds at an early age, but at the age of 23 he left his parental home - then Overtoom 447 Amsterdam - around mid-December 1923 for Antwerp where he went to live with his bro…

Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog hadden de nazi’s behoefte aan arbeidsslaven om Duitse mannen te vervangen die voor de Wehrmacht waren opgeroepen, om wegen en verdedigingwerken aan te leggen of om te werken in de omvangrijke nieuwe wapenindustrie.  Joden werden in de Zwangsarbeitslager für Juden gedwongen het zwaarste werk te verrichten, tegen een minimum aan voeding, rust en verzorging, tot zij nie…

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…

General: the Cosel period

1. The "Arbeitsfähige" men (fit for work) who were taken off the train in Cosel were generally in the age group of approximately 15 to 50 years, in some individual cases slightly older. Those who remained on the train to be transported to Auschwitz were therefore, broadly speaking, the older, weak or sickly men and the women and children.
2. In general it can be stated that th…