Eduard Schweiger

Eduard Schweiger was married to a non-Jewish woman. The couple had two children. The family lived at 7 Hondecoeterstraat in Amsterdam. He was an office clerk. He opened his house up to people in need of a hiding place. On 22 March 1943, he was picked up in Amsterdam and locked up in the Detention centre at the Amstelveenseweg. From there, he was transferred to Vught concentration camp. On 14 June …

A former neighbor remembers the sincere friendship with the Schweiger family.
During the war the Schweiger family had a Jewish person in hiding in their house. One day this person was arrested in the street. During the interrogation he gave away his hiding address. Soon Eduard Schweiger also got arrested. Some time later his wife got a letter with the message: 'Ihr Mann is gestorben' (Your husb…