Heinrich Waksman

Heinrich Waksman from Sandomierz in Poland, was a son of the shoemaker Leizor Waksman and Jisko Berman. 24 November 1927 he married in Amsterdam Henriette Fransman, a daughter of Mozes Fransman and Leentje Hildesheim. After their marriage the couple lived at Blasiusstraat 53 and there were following four more removals before they came living at Uithoornstraat 30 down floor. The Waksman family live…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 33497) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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…

Manegestraat is a small side street of the Nieuwe Kerkstraat (between the Nieuwe Kerkstraat and the Nieuwe Prinsengracht) and where today is, among other things, the music school, there was between 1761 and 1888 the “Fransche Manege” (French Riding School). The horses of circus Carré were also stabled there for many years on the open terrain that once existed.

Manegestraat, as a side street of the…