Isidoor Sigaar

Isidoor Sigaar was the still unmarried son of Meijer Sigaar and Sara de Leeuwe and he lived at home with his parents at Transvaalstraat 82 II in Amsterdam. Between 3 and 5 October 1942, he was registered in Westerbork and stayed in barack 65, till the date of 10 November 1942, when he was put on transport to Auschwitz.

This transport included 758 persons and about 180 persons of them were forcedly…

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…