According the registration card of the Jewish Council, Jenö Slomovits should have been deported from Westerbork to “the East” on 18 September 1942. This transport included 1004 persons, of whom 200 were forced to leave the train in Kozel. Boys and men between 15 and 50 years of age were employed as forced laborers in the surrounding satellite camps of Auschwitz. Jenö Slomovits then was nearly 18 years of age. It is possible that he belonged to the group of 200 prisoners in question, but at the same time, he might have belonged to the remaining group of more than 800 deportees who were transported onwards to Auschwitz, which arrived there 20 September 1942.
Strange is however that on registration cards from the file cabinet of the Jewish Council for members of the Slomovics family the annotation was made “Repatriation to Romania according list Expo 24 Aug 1943” (not at the cards fo Jenö and of his mother Perl Feuerwerker), whilst at all cards (except those from the surviving Heinrich and Elisabeth), the date of deportation of 18 September 1942 was listed. Because then card of Jenö has no mention of “repatriation”, it can be assumed that he actually was deported from Westerbork that 18 September 1942.
Because it appears that after the war in The Hague no death certificate was drawn up on behalf of the Ministry of Justice, the place and date of death of Jenö Slomovits was not known. Evidently, it appears from other sources that Jenö died in January 1943. He may have been employed somewhere as a forced labourer since 18 or 19 September 1942.
Editors of the Joods Monument.