Jacques Barentz

By establishing the date of death of Jacques Barentz the official date is maintained as stated after the war by the Dutch Department of Justice.

In a document, which was a protocol of an on-site inspection conducted by Polish judicial authorities in March 1946 at the former camp of Blechhammer and at the mass burials site in the forest near the camp, another date of death for Jacques Barentz is me…

Jacques Barentz was as the only son of Elkan Barentz and Jetje van Thijn born 14 June 1918 in Amsterdam. He was unmarried and lived at home with his parents, who moved at some point in the thirties from the Mesdaglaan 30 to Oude Amersfoortseweg 13 in Hilversum. Presumably Jacques and his parents have lived there till 1941/1942, till they were ordered by the German authorities to move to Amsterdam …

Jacques Barentz died on 21 August 1943 in Blechhammer camp and is burried in a common grave at the Community Cemetery in Opole - Polwies, Poland

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…

In the vicinity of the village of Blechhammer there were a number of forced labor camps with a total of about 50,000 forced laborers. One of these camps was later transformed into concentration camp Blechhammer, an outlying camp of the concentration camp KZ Auschwitz III Monowitz. There the Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke made out gasoline of coal and was the largest forced labor camp of the "Organiz…