Abraham Assou

Abraham Assou was a son of Isaac Assou and Anna Bed. He married 22 May 1924 in Amsterdam Anna Polak, a daughter of Mozes Polak and Mietje Polak. The couple had three children, namely Marja in 1925, Lily in 1927 and Isaac in 1930. The entire family was killed during the Shoah.

Abraham was a diamond sawyer by profession. After his wedding in 1924, he lived with his wife Anna in the Gravesandestraat …

Abraham Assou was een zoon van Isaac Assou en Anna Bed.

Volgens zijn archiefkaart in SAA is hij op 22 mei 1924 getrouwd in Amsterdam.

Zijn broer Philip Assou is op 20 Mei 1920 getrouwd met Vrouwtje Polak, een zus van zijn vrouw Anna.

Vrouwtje heeft de oorlog overleefd.

Abraham Assou died on 7 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: general body weakness (allgemeine Körperschwäche).

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

In addition, a Jokos file (number 8755) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 343 / 11835).

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 Abraham Assou as discovered there, stated that he died on 7 December 1942 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an offi…

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 …