Izaak Meijer de Bruin was a son of Simon de Bruin and Hester Ligtenstein. He was born in 1908 and unmarried. In 1934 he left Dedemsvaart for Olst. His last known address was B8 in Bonnen, where also the Mendel Meijer and Jeannette Godfriedt family lived. Bonnen is a quarter in the current municipality of Aa and Hunze in the province of Drenthe. It is located direct east of Gieten.
Izaak Meijer was brought in Westerbork 3 October 1942 and two days later, 5 October deported to Auschwitz. This transport included 2012 deportees and was also the first transport with also forced laborers from the Jewish labor camps. These camps were not labor camps but actually small-scale concentration camps for further deportation of Jews. In the night of 2-3 October 1942 during Yom Kippur, 10.000 Jews were removed from these camps. With the pretext of family reunification in Camp Westerbork, they were deported to the extermination camps.
The transport to Auschwitz made a stop at Kozel, about 80 km. west from Auschwitz. There 550 men between 15 and 50 years were forcedly to step out the train. They were employed as force labourers in the surrounding satellite camps of Auschwitz. Those who stayed behind in the train were taken to Auschwitz where they were killed. In the end only 29 people of this transport have survived the Shoah.
But not Izaak Meijer de Bruin. It is presumable that he belonged to the group who had forcedly left the train in Kozel. It appeared from his certificate of death, made out 13 February 1952 in Gieten that the Ministery of Justice has declared that Izaak Meijer de Bruin has died in the surrounding of Auschwitz.
Sources:Joodse Werkkampen; list of Jew-transports from the Netherlands; website wiewaswie.nl, certificate of death nr. 5 made out 13 Februatry 1952 in Gieten for Izaak Meijer de Bruin; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Izaak Meijer de Bruin; the book “De Joodse Gemeenschap van Avereest”, page 12, by Peter Makaske, published in 1992 by Servo Publishers, Adolph van Ansenlaan 16, 9451 GR Rolde (Drenthe), (ISBN 90-71918-44-0) and an addition of a visitor of the website.