Zygfryd moved from Poland to the Netherlands in 1938. He was a shoemaker by trade and hoped to improve his skills in Waalwijk. On 31 August 1942, Zygfryd 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.’
Jack Didden, ‘De laatste Joden in Waalwijk’, in: M. van Loon e.a. (red.), Geschiedenis van de joden in Waalwijk 1690-1945 (Waalwijk, 1990) 80-109
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