Samuel Kaufman

Samuel Kaufman, born in Nijmegen on 31 December 1891, was a son of David Kaufman and Betti Bertha Meijler. He married in Ameide (province of Utrecht) Jetje Meijer on 5 January 1916. She was a daughter of Jacob Meijer and Fronika Hakkert and was born in Ameide on 27 June 1892. The couple Kaufman-Meijer had a daughter Veronica, who was born in Rotterdam on 26 March 1917.

Samuel Kaufman was a paper m…

Samuel Kaufman behoorde tot de zogenaamde Koselgroep. De deportatietrein naar Auschwitz stopte (soms) kort op het station van Kosel, ca 80 km van Auschwitz.
Alle jongens en mannen tussen 15 en ca 50 jaar werden er dan uit gehaald en gescheiden van de familieleden.
Samuel Kaufman ging naar de staalfabriek in Malapane, Silezië (het tegenwoordige Poolse Ozimek, Opole). In het naburige dorp Szczedr…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 31229) on this household is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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…