Zadok van de Giessen

Zadok van de Giessen, the still unmarried son of Salomon van de Giessen and Hanna Noot, was cigar maker by trade and lived still with his parents at Prinsengracht in Amsterdam. Just as his father Salomon, he became victim of the big raids of 2 and 3 October 1942 in Amsterdam; he was arrested 2 October and immediately sent to Westerbork. On arrival in Auschwitz on 5 October 1942, his father Salomon…

Zadok van de Giessen
died on 5 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: pulmonary tuberculosis and gangrene (lungentuberkulose und gangraen).

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

In addition, a Jokos file (number 52898) 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 Zadok van der Giessen as discovered there, stated that he died on 5 December 1942 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mention…