Nathan Engelsman earned his living by selling vegetables and fruit as a street vendor. His wife, Dina, suffered from tuberculosis and spent some time at a sanatorium in Laren. The couple had two other children besides those mentioned here, both of whom died before the war. Dina, Simon and Max were sent to Westerbork and then deported to Auschwitz. Nathan was arrested during the raid at Jonas Danie…
Victims of february-raids gassed in Hartheim Castle.
On 22 and 23 Febuary 1941, raids took place in Amsterdam, in which 390 Jewish men were arrested and deported. Only two of them survived. A recent investigation has shown that more than 100 men were gassed in Hartheim Castle, while Mauthausen was established as the official place of death.
In February 2021, the City Archive of Amsterdam opened the exhibition “The raids of 22 and 23 February 1941 i…
Person is in the National Database of Victims of Persecution