Jacob Lampie is deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 5 October 1942. He is then 24 years old and belongs to the so-called “Arbeitsfähige” men (fit for work) who are deployed by the Germans for the war industry. The total number of deportees of that transport is 2012 people, of which 550 boys and men between 15 and 50 years old are forced to leave the train in Cosel, to be put to work in the surrounding forced labor camps in Upper Silesia.
The route followed by most of the transport of 5 October (camps where they stayed successively) was to: St. Annaberg or Sakrau-Blechhammer and later partly to Bismarckhütte and Monowitz.
According to the Red Cross investigation report, in which 19 representatives also stated this, Jacob Lampie probably arrived from St. Annaberg in mid-October 1942 with 200 to 300 Dutchmen in the Blechhammer camp, which belonged to the Auschwitz complex.
The Red Cross report further states that one person went on an evacuation transport. Some men from the transport of 5 October were also found in scattered camps such as Brobek, Malapane and one in the GROSS ROSEN resort.
Assuming that Jacob Lampie belonged to the group of Dutchmen who arrived from St. Annaberg in Blechhammer, it may also be assumed that he belonged to a group of men who went in a so-called evacuation transport from Blechammer, with Buchenwald as their final destination.
The evacuation route of one of the two evacuation marches that left from the Auschwitz complex in the so-called end period (from Blechhammer and from Gleiwitz), which departed on foot from Blechhammer on 21 January 1945, ran via Neustadt – Frankenstein – Stansee – Schweidnitz – Reichnau to GROSS ROSEN. (arrival 2 February 1945).
After 5 days departure by train from GROSS ROSEN on 7 February 1945 via Liegnitz – Görlitz – Dresden – Chemnitz – Gern – Jena – Weimar – to BUCHENWALD.
The transport that departed from Blechhammer arrived in Buchenwald on 9 February 1945 and the transport from Gleiwitz a day later, on 10 February 1945.
Jacob Lampie never experienced the last part of this evacuation transport - by train from Gross Rosen to Buchenwald; he succumbed on February 7, 1942 as a result of the hardships during the death march in the vicinity of GROSS ROSEN, as also stated in his death certificate.
Sources: the archives of the Red Cross, publications Auschwitz III - deportation transports in the Cosel period - and Auschwitz VI – carry-off transports from Auschwitz and the surrounding area and the large evacuation transports - published in March and October 1952 and the death certificate no. 156, drawn up in Amsterdam for Jacob Lampie on 27 December 1951 from the A-register 91-folio 27verso.