Esther Koekoek-van West

Esther van West was the eldest of the five children of Levie van West and Margaretha de Metz. She was born in Amsterdam on 3 October 1872 and married David Koekoek on 17 May 1899 in Antwerp. He was born in Den Haag on 14 October 1872 as a son of Salomon Koekoek and Elisabeth van Creveld

David Koekoek arrived from den Haag in Antwerp already in November 1895, where he worked as commercial agent. He…

Just like with the previous departure (of the 12th and 13th convoy of 10 October 1942), the 14th and 15th convoy were formed separately, but they formed one transport. The formation of the 14th convoy, which started on October 10, took 11 days. It consisted of  996 deportees, but only one of them managed to escape before the border. There were also 130 children.

In the 15th convoy, which was forme…

It happens that Jewish Dutch Citizens, with the official Dutch nationality living in Belgium as a result of the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War were deported from Caserne Dossin in Mechelen to Auschwitz, but that no legal declarations of death, certificates of death were found or otherwise known, nor a mention of death was found in the Belgian Official Gazette.

But if they appe…