Eliazer Drielsma, butcher at the time of his marriage, was a son of David Drielsma and Henderina van der Kaars. 14 May 1914 he married in Haarlem Frieda Driels from Gross Karben (Germany), a daughter of Nathan Driels and Lina Mai. The couple had no children.
23 March 1929 Eliazer Drielsma and his wife Frieda Driels moved from Oude Groenmarkt 24rood (24red = upstairs house) in Haarlem to Parklaan 37zwart (37black = down floor) were they have lived till their deportation in 1942. Cadastral research in Haarlem has revealed that this house was property of the Drielsma's.
12 November 1931 Eliazer Drielsma has purchased also the adjacent house at nr. 35, meant as an investment. Since 1936 till 1947 this house was rented to a family and after 1947 to another family. Eliazer Drielsma's halfsister Hanna Keizer, a daughter from his mother Henderina van der Kaars and her 2nd husband Lodewijk Mozes Keijzer, was the only heir after the war. She was married to Maurits van Thijn, who passed away 16 November 1943 in Nijmegen. Hanna Keizer, survivor of the Holocaust and heir of Eliazer Drielsma has sold the residence at Parklaan 35 in Haarlem in 1975 to the family who resided there already since 1947.
Between 3 and 5 October 1942, Eliazer Drielsma and his wife Frieda Driels were registered in Camp Westerbork and both deported to Auschwitz 12 October. Upon arrival there 15 October 1942, Eliazer’s wife Frieda Dries was killed immediately.
Presumably, Eliazer Drielsma belonged to a group of 43 victims of the nazis, who have died in Malapane at Upper Silezia in Poland. It is very likely that Eliazer was part of the so-called Cosel-group, and arrived eventually from the Cosel station in the steelfactory of Malapane (today the Polish Ozimek, Opole) and he might have lost his life there during hard labor and exhaustion. It is known that in the neighboring village of Szczedrzyk at the roman catholic churchyard is a mass grave for forde labourers. So it is very plausible that Eliazer Drielsma, together with other fellow-prisoners was buried there. His official date of death is not exactly established but has been registered as “Februray 1942 at Malapane”. 18 October 1989, in the presence of a large Dutch delegation, a memorial was revealed with the names of 43 Dutch deported Jews. Presumably also with the name of Eliazer Drielsma
The period of 28 August till 12 December 1942 was named the so-called Cosel-period, named as such because a number of transports with deported Jews, also from Belgium and France stopped at the Cosel station, 80 km west from Auschwitz. There men were “unloaded”who werd fit for work, according the German standards and sent to the surrounding camps in the region. That period, about 9000 men from 39 trains were picked by the German Oranisation Schmelt. They came from France and Belgium and 3500 of them came with 18 trains from Westerbork. From those 9000 men who were selected from the trains at Cosel, only between 700 and 900 survived the war; just 181 from the 3500 Dutchmen, of whom 181 from the camp Blechhammer. The depot at Cosel, the spot where selections has taken place, has not seriously changed since 1942. 2 September 2016 a memorial has been revealed there by descendants of the victims.
Source: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozle.
Other sources: website www.allefriezen.nl, birth certificate of Eliazer Drielsma; website www.wiewaswie.nl, marriage Eliazer Drielsma to Frieda Driels; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Eliazer Drielsma and Frieda Drielsma-Driels; notary deed of transfer of 11 November 1931 regarding purchase Parklaan 35 in Haarlem; further research by the Noord Hollands Archive in Haarlem and additions by de editors of Joods Monument on behalf of Mrs. Marianne Pijpstra-Cranenbroek of Haarlem.