Izak Vos

Izak Vos was a son of Joseph Vos and Mietje Bierman. He was married, probably around 1925 to Henriette Cutzien from Oldenzaal, usually known as Krukziener, a daughter of Meijer Cutzien and Jane de Groot. Izak and Henriette had two children, namely Joseph on 2 April 1927 and Jeanne on 27 July 1932. However, the complete family, who lived at Bentheimerstraat 53a in Coevorden (Drenthe), was killed in…

De familie Vos wonend aan de Bentheimerstraat 54a was een slagersfamilie die oorspronkelijk afkomstig was uit Berkich, Duitsland. Izak Vos, geboren op 20 juli 1894 te Coevorden runden samen een slagerij met zijn vrouw, Henriette Cutzien-Vos, geboren op 10 februari 1901 te Oldenzaal. Zij kregen samen in totaal twee kinderen,  zoon Jozeph, geboren op 2 april 1927 te Coevorden en een dochter Jeanne, …

Izak Vos died on 1 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: left-sided pneumonia (linksseitige Lungenentzündung).

Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).

In addition, a Jokos file (number 10119) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

This person is commemorated on a memorial in Coevorden. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.

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 Izak Vos  as discovered there, stated that he died on 1 December 1942  in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an officia…

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…