Simon Reiss

Simon Reiss, son of Barend Reiss and Hanna Marie Root, was born 16 September 1913 in Amsterdam. He lived at home at Tugelaweg 97 parterre, together with his mother and sibs Lena, Esther, Kitty, Josephine and Abraham Mozes. Simon was employed as warehouse clerk but later he worked as a domestic servant.

On 16 July 1942 he married Marianna Goudsmit in Amsterdam, who was born 12 August 1919 as daught…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 31225) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.

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…