Emanuel Speijer

Emanuel Speijer the second son in the family of Bernard Speijer and Marianna à Catan and was born on 3 December 1921 in Amsterdam. He worked as a barber, later as an errand boy (by bike) and at the time of the mandatory registration of all the Jews in the Netherlands, he was a butcher’s hand. Maurice was born on 28 November 1923; he worked as a bicycle boy. Since 1933 they lived with their parents…

In addition, Jokos files (numbers 15687, 50984, 50273) on this family or other family members are at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

The Jokos files reveal that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 2677/5615).

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…