Abraham de Hes

The family consised of Mozes de Hes and his wife Alida van Berg, their son Abraham de Hes and his wife Marianne Soester and the unmarried son Benjamin de Hes. Two children survived the Shoah, namely: Max and Betsy, both of whom died in San Francisco in 1994 and 2001.

MOZES DE HES was a son of Abraham Mozes de Hes and Betty Beuth and was born on 3 September 1864 in Hoogeveen. Mozes de Hes became a …

In addition, a Jokos file (number 18163) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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…

GENERAL

The "men fit for work”  who were taken off the train in Cosel were generally in the age group of approximately 15 to 50 years, in some individual cases slightly older.  Those who remained on the train to be sent on to Auschwitz were therefore, broadly speaking, the older, weak or sickly men and the women and children. In general it can be stated that the latter groups were killed by gassin…

Meer informatie over de familie De Hes-van Berg, inclusief foto’s, is te vinden in onderstaand boek.
Anje van Buuren-Meinardi, De geschiedenis van Joodse families in Bergen op Zoom (Oosterbeek 2013) 15-46.