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 Lap as discovered there, stated that he died on 13 December 1942 in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an official cause of death as “gangrene and body decay” (Gangraen und Körperverfall).
The archives of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam list Jacob Lap arriving 3 October 1942 in Camp Westerbork and that he had been deported "eastward" on 5 October 1942.
Private collection of Edward Haduch, Kedzierzyn-Kozle (Poland), the official death certificate of Jacob Lap, issued by German authorities (Standesamt) of Annaberg and the Archive of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam.
However, by establishing the date of death of Jacob Lap, the official date is maintained as stated after the war by the Dutch Department of Justice.