Emanuel van Praag

The youngest child of Hijman van Praag and Elsje Oudkerk was Emanuel van Praag, born on 19 January 1915. He was unmarried and lived in Den Helder at Keizerstraat 76. There he had a sister Jogeva in 1913 and an older brother Gerrit in 1910.

The Den Helder Militia Register shows that 19-year-old Emanuel van Praag attended 6 years of primary school, followed by 2 years of trade school and went then t…

By establishing the date of death the official date is maintained as stated after the war by the Dutch Department of Justice. On the death certificate of this person a period is stated. The date of death mentioned here is the end date of that period in which with certainty can be established that a person has deceased.

Overlijdensakte Emanuel van Praag

bron Regionaal Archief Alkmaar

The Spring transports of 1943  (from 11 January  till 23 February 1943)

General remarks

To a greater extent than the Auschwitz transports of autumn 1942, the spring transports of 1943 had the character of extermination transports, accentuated above all by the fact that they were composed for the most part of older and less able-bodied persons, who were not eligible for employment , and were ther…

The death certificate, no. 272 dated 1 December 1950, drawn up in Den Helder, shows that following a decision of the District Court of Alkmaar of 2 November 1950, the Civil Registry of Den Helder must be supplemented with a deed showing that at a time between 29 January  1943 and the capitulation of the German army in May 1945, Emanuel van Praag died in or in the vicinity of Auschwitz.

Later inves…