Abraham Roos

The Police Commissioner of the Juvenile Bureau in Amsterdam requested that the minor Abraham Roos, born on 19 May 1922 in Amsterdam, living at 72 Beethovenstraat, second floor, in Amsterdam, be located and brought in. He had been missing since 17 July 1942. This description referred to Jews who had gone into hiding.
Algemeen Politieblad, nr 32, 13 August 1942, 934, notice 1517

Abraham Roos, geb. 19.05.1922 te Amsterdam, is op 07.12.1943 met transport no. 64 vanuit het Franse doorgangskamp Drancy naar Auschwitz gedeporteerd.

Zijn beroep was kok, volgens opgave in onderstaande bron.

In Drancy had hij volgens een reçu van 26 november 1943 en dat is ondertekend door een politiechef (le chef de la police.....), nog 130 Franse francs op zak, wat hij wel zal hebben moete…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 8328) 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 :

- securities or bonds. (W-claim, number C115/1812)

- valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 10086/8466)

Abraham Roos left the Netherlands for France in July 1942. He tried to escape to Switzerland through the mountains of Haute-Savoie on November 21, 1942, together with two friends from Amsterdam, Johan Kaufman (1918) and Maurice Boërs (1922).

The three of them were sent back by the Swiss border guards at Trient (Switzerland) and soon arrested by the French gendarmes of Vallorcine.

He later got free…

Meer over de mislukte vlucht van Abraham ‘Bram’ Roos naar Zwitserland is te lezen in onderstaand boek.
Auke Zeldenrust, De Joodse bruiloft: een koffer vol oorlogsgeheimen (Amsterdam 2018) 123-124.