Jacob Raphaël Groen

Jacob Raphael Groen, born 11 August 1896 in Amsterdam, was a son of Aaron Groen and Jetje de Hond. His father died already 14 January 1922 in Amsterdam and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Diemen. His mother died 28 February1941 in “Het Apeldoornsche Bosch”, where she was hospitalized as a patient in the course of 1940.

Jacob was born into a family with in total eight children, of whom two h…

Jacob Raphaël Groen
died on 27 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: gangrene and pneumonia (Gangraen und Lungenentzündung).

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

Branca van Lochem was the daughter of Jacob van Lochem and Esther Rootveld. In 1924 she married Jacob Raphaël Groen.
Branca Groen-van Lochem died in Amsterdam in 1942.
Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Archiefkaart van Branca van Lochem

In addition, a Jokos file (number 52663) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk …

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 Raphaël Groen as discovered there, stated that he died on 27 December 1942 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned …

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…