Abraham Philip Wijnberg

Heintje de Wit, who was married in Rotterdam on 15 December 1923 to Abraham Philip Wijnberg, was born on 21 January 1902 in Rotterdam as the youngest of the six children of Philip de Wit and Aaltje Tammerijn. Her spouse Abraham Philip Wijnberg was born on 28 February 1896 in Assen; he was a son of Philip Abraham Wijnberg and Mientje Groenberg. The couple Wijnberg-de Wit had three children, namely …

In addition, a Jokos file (number 17630) on this household is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

From mid July 1942 till the end of February 1943, 52 trains have left for Auschwitz. Not all occupants arrived in Auschwitz. In the period of 28 August till 8 December 1942, 18 of the 28 deportation trains from Westerbork were stopped in Kozel, ± 80 km before Auschwitz and there boys and men between ± 15 and 50 years were forced to leave the train; they ended up in labor camps near Kozel, which a …

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…