Meijer Tas

Meijer Tas was a son of Levie Tas and Betje Slier. He was born on 27 January 1896 in Amsterdam and started his career as a commercial traveler. Later he was a wholesaler in draperies. Meijer was also active as a pastoral worker.  Before he was married, he lived with his sibs and parents at home at Tugelaweg 25, 1^st floor in Amsterdam East.

On 15 February 1928, Levie married in Amsterdam Sara Hirsc…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 52799) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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…

From Chapter II, General (concerns transports during the Cosel period).

The "arbeitsfähige”(working) men 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 to Auschwitz were, broadly speaking, the older, weak or sickly men and the women and children.

In general it…