Marcus Boas

Marcus Boas was the 2^nd of the five children of brushmaker Boas Boas and Rachel Mechanicus, of whom two sibs have died even before their third year. Marcus was born on 16 February 1893 at Lepelstraat 69 in Amsterdam. He he had a younger brother Benjamin and a younger sister Grietje.

His father, Boas Boas, was not only a brush maker, but also a diamond cutter and travelled regularly to Antwerp with…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 31517) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

The transport of 30 October 1942 from Westerbork is, just like some previous transports, a not very surveyable transport. It consisted of 659 deportees, of which 200 "fit for work" boys and men between 15 and 50 years old were forced to leave the train at a stopover in Cosel to be used as forced laborers in the surrounding labor camps.

From Cosel all went to St. Annaberg and from there either earl…