Emanuel van Leeuwen

Elizabeth IJer was a daughter of Abraham IJer and Kaatje Stad. 24 November 1920 she married the photographer Jacob Haagman in Rotterdam, a son of Louis Haagman and Mietje Ossendrijver. The couple had three children: Mietje in 1921, Kaatje in 1924 and Anna in 1926. Kaatje however died alreadty in January 1925 and Mietje and Anna were killed in the Shoah.

23 November 1928 the marriage of Jacob and E…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 16503) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

The period from 28 August to 12 December 1942 was known as the so-called Cosel period. Deportation trains  made a stopover at the freight station of Cosel, located 80 km west of Auschwitz. During that stop, boys and men who were considered fit for work by the Germans, were usually forcibly separated from their families and taken off the train and put to work in the surrounding labor camps of Upper…