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Abraham Vos

Amsterdam, – Gross-Rosen,

Reached the age of 46 years

Occupation: Diamond worker

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The fate of Abraham Vos.

Abraham Vos was a son of Isaac Vos and Mietje Visser en was born on 27 September 1898 in Amsterdam. On 28 November 1929 he married there Jetta van Delft, a daughter of Abraham van Delft and Esther Brommet, who were both born in Veendam but since September 1904 were living in Amsterdam. The Abraham Vos-van Delft couple had no children.

After their wedding day, Abraham Vos and Jetta van Delft lived …

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Abraham Vos and his family

In addition, a Jokos file (number 14853) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.


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The Cosel period.

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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Blechhammer.

In the vicinity of the village of Blechhammer there were a number of forced labor camps with a total of about 50,000 forced laborers. One of these camps was later transformed into concentration camp Blechhammer, an outlying camp of the concentration camp KZ Auschwitz III Monowitz. There the Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke made out gasoline of coal and was the largest forced labor camp of the "Organiz…

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