Wiardus Gompel Kosses

This person is commemorated on a memorial in Bourtange. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.

In total, two of the three children of the couple Hartog Kosses and Roza Meijer survived the war. Most likely, one of these children lived at another address in February 1941.
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The mayor of Vlagtwedde requested that Hartog Kosses and his wife Roza Kosses-Meijer, residing at B 588 in Vlagtwedde, be located, detained and brought to trial. They had left their plac…

De koffer van Wiardus Gompel Kosses bevindt zich in museum Auschwitz, inv.nr. PMO-II-1-736.

Bron: Yad Vashem,

List of Jews who arrived in Auschwitz, based on the names found on the suitcases they brought to the camp

Record Group: O.41 - Lists and Documentation of Perished and Persecuted Collection.

Het derde kind van het gezin Kosses, Benjamin (Bennie), werd geboren op 25 oktober 1921 in Oude Pekela.
In 1923 verhuisde het gezin naar Vlagtwedde. Vader Hartog Kosses was veehandelaar, vooral in schapen. Het gezin leefde koosjer en ging met feestdagen naar de synagoge. Omdat hun dorp vlakbij de Duitse grens lag, wisten ze al vroeg wat er in Duitsland gaande was. Zoon Bennie wilde na de MULO naar …