Louis Boas

Louis Boas was a son of Alexander Boas and Rachel Koen. He married 10 April 1924 Roza Pimontel, daughter of Salomon Pimontel and Sara Swart. The couple had no children.

From the first marriage of his father to Catharina Walvisch, solomnizes in Amsterdam on 7 May 1873, Louis had three brothers: Barend (who passed away in 1936 and who was married Klaartje Roet, Salomon and Jochem , who were unmarrie…

Louis Boas died on 30 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: laryngeal tuberculosis (Kehlkopftuberkulose).

Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).

In addition, a Jokos file (number 40376) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Research into the wartime civil registries of one of the civil registry offices in Upper Silesias (Poland) discovered many records that corresponded to deaths of inmates from the "Reichsautobahnlager Annaburg" and "Zwangsarbeitslager Niederkirch" camps.

A certificate of death for Louis Boas as discovered there, stated that he died on 30 December 1942  in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an offic…

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…

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Bij mijn onderzoek naar een Joodse familie stuit ik op het feit dat de persoon in kwestie is omgebracht/overleden in Seibersdorf. Geen idee waar in Europa ik dit moet zoeken en wat het inhoud. Op Joodsmonument zelf staat een heel kort stukje uit het werk van Prof L. de Jong m.b.t. de zogenaamde Cosel-transporten. Goed, dus dan maar Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ... erbij gepakt en …