Abraham Barend Heijmans

Abraham Barend Heijmans, who was born on 20 April 1901 in Alphen aan den Rijn as son of the stock broker Joseph Heijmans from Appeltern and Susanna Gersons from Tilburg, married on 14 August 1928 in Zwolle the there born Helena Letter, born 8 June 1901 as eldest of the four children of Aron Israel Letter and Rosette Hamburger. The Heijmans couple had four children: on 4 April 1930 Rosalie Suze was…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 2847) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 5220/1688).

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…

Part of the text on page 223 from volume 8 of Dr. L. de Jong: conditions in the Seibersdorf forced labor camp, located in the south of Poland near the Czech border:

Just as in Bobrek, a new camp had to be built in Seibersdorf. "During the day," according to a member of the Kosel group, "we had to work on the railroad tracks and in the evening on the construction of the camp. There was hardly any w…

Plaatsbepaling

Bij mijn onderzoek naar een Joodse familie stuit ik op het feit dat de persoon in kwestie is omgebracht/overleden in Seibersdorf. Geen idee waar in Europa ik dit moet zoeken en wat het inhoud. Op Joodsmonument zelf staat een heel kort stukje uit het werk van Prof L. de Jong m.b.t. de zogenaamde Cosel-transporten. Goed, dus dan maar Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden ... erbij gepakt en …