Robert Emanuel Heilbut

Robert Emanuel Heilbut was interned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Shortly before liberation a train carrying 2,000 prisoners, mainly Jewish, left for Theresienstadt. The train spent 14 days travelling through Germany, and many passengers died on the journey. Finally, it came to a halt near the small village of Tröbitz, where Allied troops liberated the surviving passengers. Robert Emanuel H…

Ernst Heilbut was the son of Harrij Heilbut and Rebecca Judith Adler. He married Flora Kalker, daughter of Emanuel Kalker and Sophia Jeanette van Meekern. One of their children, Robert Emanuel, was married. His wife survived the war.
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In addition, a Jokos file (number 14671) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorizat…

Robert Emanuel “Rob” Heilbut was administrateur, maar speelde daarnaast in zijn vrije tijd piano, klarinet en harmonica. Ook schreef hij liedjes en componeerde muziek. In februari 1942 trad hij op in de Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam. Bij zijn aankomst in Westerbork in de zomer van 1943 had hij zijn klarinet bij zich. Ook in het kamp trad hij op, onder andere met zelfgeschreven liedjes over v…