Jacob Lampie

Jacob Lampie was the middle of the three sons of Mozes Lampie and Bertha Cohen. He was born in Amsterdam on 1 January 1918 and he was a bedmaker by profession. Jacob was unmarried, lived with his parents at Weesperstraat 62 2^nd level and after the family moved on 13 November 1940 at Weesperstraat 18 2^nd floor. That move followed after the eldest son Salomon got married on 8 November 1939 and left …

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…

Jacob Lampie is deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 5 October 1942. He is then 24 years old and belongs to the so-called “Arbeitsfähige” men (fit for work) who are deployed by the Germans for the war industry. The total number of deportees of that transport is 2012 people, of which 550 boys and men between 15 and 50 years old are forced to leave the train in Cosel, to be put to work in the su…

GENERAL

The "men fit for work”  who were taken off the train in Cosel were generally in the age group of approximately 15 to 50 years, in some individual cases slightly older.  Those who remained on the train to be sent on to Auschwitz were therefore, broadly speaking, the older, weak or sickly men and the women and children. In general it can be stated that the latter groups were killed by gassin…

EVACTUATION TRANSPORTS

With the following transports by train and by foot, prisoners from the AUSCHWITZ complex were evacuated elsewher in the perion 18 to 21 January 1945.

1. a) camp or command, which was evacuated; (Ak=Arbeitskommando = Work Command- ; KL=Konzentrations Lager = Concentration Camp.
2. b) camp or place of destination;
3. c) date of arrival.

MEN, ON FEET TO GROSS-ROSEN AND ONWARDS BY TRAI…