Jacob Lampie was the middle of the three sons of Mozes Lampie and Bertha Cohen. He was born in Amsterdam on 1 January 1918 and he was a bedmaker by profession. Jacob was unmarried, lived with his parents at Weesperstraat 62 2nd level and after the family moved on 13 November 1940 at Weesperstraat 18 2nd floor. That move followed after the eldest son Salomon got married on 8 November 1939 and left the parental home.
Jacob Lampie was probably arrested at the beginning of October 1942, during large-scale raids that the Germans had organized at the time, and taken to Westerbork. An exact date of transport from Amsterdam to Westerbork could not be found on the transport lists in the archive of the Red Cross. Not known either is whether Jacob had previously been employed in one of the Jewish labor camps in the Northern Netherlands.
Already on 5 October 1942, Jacob was deported to Auschwitz in a transport of 2012 victims, men, women and children, including the first part of the 10.000 men from the Jewish labor camps, liquidated by the Germans, which has led to enormous chaos in Westerbork at the beginning of October 1942.
The deportation train made a stopover in the small village of Cosel, located ±80 km west of Auschwitz, where 550 boys and men between the ages of 15 and 50 were brutally forced to leave the train. They were put to work in the surrounding forced labor camps in Upper Silesia. The then 24-year-old Jacob Lampie certainly belonged to this group of men, being “fit for work”.
The post-war investigation of the Red Cross has shown that of the transport of 5 October, the men were sent from Cosel to St. Annaberg, or to Sakrau-Blechhammer and later partly to Bismarckhütte and Monowitz. It is almost certain that Jacob Lampie ended up in Blechhammer and from there later would be sent to Buchenwald at the beginning of 1945 with an evacuation transport in the so-called end-period.
The evacuation transport, including Jacob Lampie, left by foot from Blechhammer on 21 January 1945 for Gross Rosen. What was left of the originally departed number of men, arrived in Gross Rosen on 2 February 1945. The "evacuation" would continue on 7 February by train to Buchenwald.
Jacob Lampie did not experience that anymore. After arriving at the Gross Rosen complex, he succumbed to the consequences of the death march Blechhammer-Gross Rosen on 7 February 1945.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Mozes Lampie, archive card of Jacob Lampie; the archives of the Dutch Red Cross/publications Auschwitz III and Auschwitz VI,(Cosel transports and Evacuation transports), edited March and October 1952; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Jacob Lampie; the Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl/5 Oct 1942 and the death certificate for Jacob Lampie, nr. 156 made out in Amsterdam from the A-register 91-folio 27verso on 27 December 1951.