Szlama Lajb Markowicz

Szlama Lajb Markowicz was born in Prascka in Poland on 28 December 1896 as a son of Simsia Markowicz and Rijwka Kopistlowska. In the early 1920s, Szlama Lajb arrived in the Netherlands from Poland. He lived there in Dolina at Warsawerstrasse 55 and in the Netherlands he was from the beginning of August to the end of November 1921 in an internment camp in Harderwijk at first. He was then registered…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 11227) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

Deportation periods in 1943

Apart from the "Sobibor period" (2 March to 20 July 1943), two deportation periods can be distinguished in 1943, viz. the period from 11 January to 2 February 1943, in which 9 transports left directly for Auschwitz, viz. 8 from Westerbork and 1 from Apeldoorn (for the sake of brevity to be called "Spring transports 1943"), and the period from 24 August to 16 November 1…