Arie Izak van Tijn

Arie Izak van Tijn was married to Elisabeth Polak. The couple had an unmarried daughter, Aleida, and two married daughters, Isidora Gosschalk-van Tijn and Etty Bouwman-van Tijn. They were all office clerks. They also had a son, Maurits van Tijn.

Arie Izak van Tijn had a fancy goods business on the corner of the Peperstraat and the Hof in Amersfoort. He was a brother of Samuel van Tijn.
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Een uitgebreid portret van het gezin van Arie Izak van Tijn, inclusief een klassenfoto uit 1933 van zijn dochter Etty, is te vinden in het boek van Channa Kalmann, Hun namen niet vergeten: Herdenkingsstenen Amersfoort (Amersfoort 2019) 6-17.

"Arbeitslager Oud Leusden” was a labor camp near Camp Amersfoort. The official name of Camp Amersfoort was” Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort”, abbreviated PDA.

From 18 August 1941, the PDA was in use until the spring of 1943, when it was closed for a short time to be renovated and expanded and more and more prisoners were sent to Amersfoort. They all had to be put to work. Companies in the…

The person who is mentioned on this page, belonged to a group of approximately 70 men who were “lent” from the Vught concentration camp to the PDA, the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort, on 20 May 1943. They were housed and put to work in the Labor camp “Oud Leusden”, to dig a shooting range for tanks at the Infantry Barracks on the corner of Van Campenstraat in Amersfoort. Because of their…