Isaac van Gigh

Isaac van Gigh, born 29 Decembe 1891 in Rotterdam, was a son of David van Gigh and Wilhelmina Catharina Bril. He was a greengrocer. On 10 March 1926 he married Henderijntje van der Sluijs in Rotterdam, woh was born there as daughter of Isaac van der Sluijs and Catharina de Leeuw. The Van Gigh's had no children.,

Since 10 August 1926 they lived at Boschlaan 12 in Rotterdam, where they also runned t…

De familie van Gigh heeft een groentewinkel die op benedenverdieping van het huis aan de Boschlaan 12 van Ies (Isaac) van Gigh en zijn vrouw Hendrijntje gevestigd is; een echtpaar zonder kinderen. Zij wonen eerst op de eerste verdieping van dit huis, maar omdat ze toch altijd in de winkel zijn, gaan ze achter de winkel wonen en komt hun huis vrij. De familie Vink trekt in 1938 in het huis. In mei …

Er is tijdens de oorlog nog contact tussen de buren van de Boschlaan, de families Van Gigh, Van der Sluijs en Vink. Via de houten achteruitgang aan de Eendrachtsweg 71, waar de familie Vink inmiddels woont, komt Rosa van der Sluijs (Rotterdam 31-7-1904) soms stiekem langs. Haar moeder Catharina /Caatje van der Sluijs- de Leeuw (Tiel 1-4-1864) is al naar het kamp Westerbork gevoerd. Als haar zwager…

Isaac van Gigh died on 31 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: gangrene and right-sided pneumonia (Gangraen und rechtsseitige Lungenentzündung).

Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).

In addition, a Jokos file (number 53309) on this household is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Research into the wartime civil registries of one of the civil registry offices in Upper Silesias (Poland) discovered many records that corresponded to deaths of inmates from the "Reichsautobahnlager Annaburg" and "Zwangsarbeitslager Niederkirch" camps.

A certificate of death for Isaac van Gigh as discovered there, stated that he died on 31 December 1942 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an of…

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…