Herman Knoop, son of Jonas Knoop and Marie Knoop, draftsman by trade, had probably tried to escape deportation after the summer of 1942 by fleeing via Belgium to France but was apparently arrested at some point in Belgium and deported on 24 October 1942 with the 14th convoy from Mechelen to Auschwitz. This transport, combined with the 15th convoy, did not made a stop at Kozel, where men between 15 and 50 years of age were forced to leave the train to be deployed as forced labourers in the surrounding labor camps. All deportees have arrived in Auschwitz.
Whether Herman has been deployed as forced laborer or got immediately killed on arrival there on ± 26 October 1942, is not known. Therefore his place and date of death as mentioned on his page at the Jewish Monument is recorded as “Municpality and date unknown”.
Sources among others: City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Jonas Knoop and Marie Knoop, family registration card of Salomon Knoop (1860), closed family registration cards 1892-1920/register of Hartog Barend Knoop, archive cards of Herman, Frederik Samuel, Hendrika Benvenida and Willem Albert Knoop and the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Jonas Knoop, Marie Knoop-Knoop en van Herman, Willem Albert, Frederik Samuel, Willem Albert en Hendrika Benvenida Knoop.