Eduard Marcus Knap, commercial representative, was a son of Benjamin Knap and Clara Rachel Elze. He lived with his parents and sister Debora Jansje in Den Haag at Kiggelaerstraat 6. On 13 February 1943, he and his sister were sent from Rotterdam to transit camp Westerbork as “prisoners” in a penal-transport and on 16 February he has been deported to Auschwitz. His sister was killed in Sobibor, three weeks later on 5 March 1943.
His certificate of death A1622 dated 1 September 1950 from the municipality Den Haag stated among others the following: “According a decree by the Court of Den Haag of the 21st of June 1950, the addition in the registers of the Civily Registry of the Municpality Den Haag has been ordered of the passing between 16 February 1943 and the capitulation of the German Army in May 1945 in or in the surrounding of Auschwitz of Knap, Eduard Marcus, born in Rotterdam on 20 July 1915”.
The above mentioned text made it clear that for Eduard Knap no exact date- and place of death is known.
City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Benjamin Knap; the File Cabinet of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, records of Eduard Knap and Debora Knap; Municipal Archive of Den Haag, certificate of death A1622 of 1 September 1950 of Eduard Marcus Knap.