Elias Schijvenschuurder

Elias Schijvenschuurder, born 21 April 1895 in Antwerp, was a son of Eva Jacoba Schijvenschuurder. He married in Amsterdam Saartje Theeboom on 10 August 1916, a daughter of Levie Theeboom and Fijtje van Cleef. On 26 February 1918 their daughter Evalina was born in Amsterdam.

Elias Schijvenschuurder was a diamond polisher by profession. Also before his marriage to Saartje, he came several times to …

Elias Schijvenschuurder died on 28 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: pulmonary edema (Lungenodem).

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

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 Elias Schijvenschuurder as discovered there, stated that he died on 28 December 1942 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentio…

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…