Jacob Worms

Jacob Worms was a son of Salomon Worms and Mietje Furth and was born on 25 January 1910 in Amsterdam. He started his working career as butcher, but changed profession and became a diamond worker, just like his father. He stayed with his parents and siblings many times in Borgerhout and Deurne (Antwerp) in Belgium.

Coming from Vrolikstraat 54 3^rd floor, the address of his parents at the time, Jacob…

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…