Moses Abram

Moses Abram, a son of Emanuel Abram and Schoontje de Jong, was born in Amsterdam on 2 December 1891. He married Rebecca de Paauw, a daughter of Samuel de Paauw and Keetje Soubice, on 12 September 1917 in Zaandam. After the marriage took place in 1917, Moses and Rebecca moved into a house at Nieuwe Prinsengracht 50. Later they moved to Linneausparkweg 73. Moses Abram supported his family as a comme…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 7735) 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…

The tribulations of Moses Abram are virtually identical to those of Leo Aussen, except that Moses Abram only succumbed on 25 January 1945 during the so-called death march from Blechhammer to Gross-Rosen.

Like many transports during that period, the train stopped at Cosel shortly before arriving at Auschwitz. Leon Aussen (and also Moses Abram) were among the men who were taken from the train here. …

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The deportation period from 28 August 28 to 12 December 1942 is called the "Cosel period", because during that time a number of transports departing from the Netherlands (and also from France and Belgium) were not transferred in their entirety to Auschwitz, but at the Cosel station (Upper Silesia, ± 80 km west of Auschwitz) were split in such a way that the men deemed fit…