Isaac Vogel was born on 2 October 1913 in Amsterdam. He was merchant by trade and unmarried. He lived at home with his parents at Rapenburg 16 1st floor in the old city-centre of Amsterdam. Notes on his registration card of the Jewish Council reveal that Isaac has reported himself without being called up for one of the Jewish labor camps in the Northern Netherlands, but it is unknown where he ended up. Besides that, re reported himself voluntarily for the so-called “Arbeitseinsatz”, the provision of additional work in Germany under police surveillance. To this end he arrived in Westerbork on 3 August 1942.
Isaac was initially released from deportation by the Jewish Council because he had been in the military. His registration card was marked MIL. Those deportation resets go back to the first ones in July 1942 (from 30 July 1942). The Jewish Council then proposed a number of categories of Jews for deportation set backs including former soldiers and/or KNIL soldiers. For example, soldiers who fought for the fatherland in the first days of May 1940. In the beginning this led to actual resettings but soon no longer anymore.
On Monday 17 August 1942, a transport left Westerbork for Auschwitz with 506 deportees, to whom also Isaac Vogel belonged. This transport has arrived there ±19 or 20 August 1942 and Isaac received prisoners number 59987 in Auschwitz. By a research to the fate of Isaac Vogel in the archives of the Auschwitz State Museum it appeared that he was admitted as a patient in the prisoners hospital of Auschwitz I, which was located in Block 20.
However, patients with infectious diseases were also murdered there by lethal phenol injections. Based on the description of the “treatment of the patients” in Block 20, it must be assumed that also Isaac Vogel has been fell victim to such a “therapy” and has been murdered on 21 September 1942 by means of a phenol injection because of such an infectious disease.
Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration card of Salomon Vogel, archive card of Isaac Vogel; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration card of Isaac Vogel; info by Raymund Schütz re “set backs”; website Museum & Memorial Auschwitz-Birkenau/Auschwitz Prisoners/Isaac Vogel; Archive info from the Auschwitz State Museum regarding Isaac Vogel; Wikipedia website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl and the death certificate no. 43 dated 24 July 1952 from the A-register 97-folio 9 for Isaac Vogel, made out in Amsterdam.