Leo Verständig

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Leo came to the Netherlands in July 1939 and went to live with a family in Amsterdam.
His parents were Hedwig Wachshändler, born in 1884 in Lublin, and Josef, born in 1877 in Sieniawa. Josef was deported to Poland in 1938, but in the summer of 1939, he went to Belgium. He was deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz in September 1942, with his wife.
Address in Germany: Kassel, Kasernestr. 5
Source: National Archive, 2.04.58, inv 130 and others

See:Josef, Hedwig, Leo und Erna Verständig