Jacob Lap

Jacob Lap, born 12 June 1898 in Amsterdam, was a son of Marcus Lap and Debora Juda and besides working as diamond worker, he was also an office clerk by profession. On 6 January 1927 he married in Amsterdam Marianne Waterman, born 3 July 1899 in Amsterdam as daughter of Levie Waterman and Leentje Speijer. After his wedding in 1927 the Lap-Waterman couple lived at Tolstraat 97 2^nd storey in Amsterd…

Jacob Lap died on 13 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: gangrene and body decay (Gangraen und Körperverfall).

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

In addition, a Jokos file (number 32269) 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 Jacob Lap as discovered there, stated that he died on 13 December 1942  in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an offici…

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…