Isidoor Soep

Catharina Soep, the elder of the twins of Meijer Soep and Anna Vogel, was born on 15 March 1911 half an hour later than her sister Elisabeth. Her brother Isidoor was not born until 28 August 1920. Catharina was a tailor by trade and Isidoor was a presser. They lived at home with their parents and after moving from Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 10, their address on 5 March 1941 had become Amstel 35 1st …

Meijer Soep was a son of Jacob Soep and Betje Leendert Schellevisch. He was born in Amsterdam on 6 February 1884 as the youngest in a family of seven children and was a cigar maker by trade. On 23 June 1909 he married Anna Vogel, who was born on 13 August 1885 as a daughter of Isaäc Vogel and Trijntje Lubig. Anna was the third in a family of ten children.

After the marriage of Meijer and Anna was …

Anna Vogel was married to Meijer Soep. The couple lived at 35 Amstel, second floor, in Amsterdam.

In addition, a Jokos file (number 16616) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

The mortuary book was kept by Stanisław Ryszler (no. 16439), a kapo of Leichenträger kommando. Leichentrager kommando was responsible for taking corpses of dead prisoners or prisoners killed in the camp hospital, prisoners shot against the Death Wall, prisoners hanged at the assembly square or prisoners who died in residual blocks to the mortuary located in the basement of Block 28.

The mortuary b…

The so-called Sterbebücher of Auschwitz includes nearly 69.000 official certificates of death, made out in the camp between July 1941 and December 1943.