Jacob Schilt

Jacob Schilt, born 7 March 1893 in Amsterdam, was a son of Abraham Schilt and Rachel Dreese, who both were already deceased, respectivly in 1920 and 1921. Jacob Schilt was born into a family with in total 11 childreen: the first born daughter Debora died 2 August 1882, only 3 ½ months of age and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery of Zeeburg in Amsterdam. Of Jacob’s sister Debora (1884) is known t…

Jacob Schilt died on 30 November 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: myocarditis (Herzmuskelentzündung).

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 Jacob Schilt as discovered there, stated that he died on 30 November 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…