Hermann Seinfeld moved from Vienna to Waalwijk in 1929 to learn the shoe trade. He stayed with the Van Adelberg family on the market square. On 31 August 1942, Hermann was placed on a transport to Poland with five other Jews from Waalwijk. The train stopped at Kozle (Poland), where all the Jewish men between the ages of fifteen and fifty had to get off. This included five Waalwijkers, one of whom survived. That survivor has described what happened next: '[T]hat night [we arrived] at the first camp in Upper Silesia, Niederkirch. The other young men from Waalwijk were with me. They stayed there almost ten days and then were transferred to another camp. After that, I never saw them or heard from them again.’
J. Bader, ’De geschiedenis van de joodse gemeenten Geertruidenberg, Capelle, Waalwijk en Heusden‘, in:Tussen twee stromen(Breda 1997) 38
Hermann Seinfeld worked at a chrome leather factory, Koninklijke Chroomlederfabriek 'De Amstel' (previously known as L.S. Gompen). The factory was located in Waalwijk. During the war six workers there, including some of the owners, were taken away and murdered. After the war, a plaque commemorating these six workers was placed at the entrance to the main factory building. Years later, when the building was demolished, the plaque came into private ownership.
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