Eliazer Wijnberg

Eliazer Wijnberg was born in Groningen on 30 October 1893 as the son of Jozef Wijnberg and Ida Scheuer. Eliazer earned his living as a rag dealer, but during the years of the persecution of the Jews he worked for the Jewish Council from 1 September 1942.

Eliazer Wijnberg lived at Zuiderdiep 26a in Groningen. On 16 November 1922, he married Roza van Polen in Amsterdam, a daughter of Elkan Israel va…

In addition, a Jokos file (number 36002) on this family is at the Amsterdam Municipal Archive. Access is subject to authorization from the Stichting Joods Maatschappelijk Werk.The Jokos file reveals that a claim was lodged for compensation for valuables surrendered to the Lippmann-Rosenthal looting bank (L-claim, number 13350/12197).

A Liro card exists for this person or family. The original card…

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.

GENERAL REMARKS

The deportation period called the “Cosel period” runs from 28 August to 12 December 1942, because during that time a number of transports that left the Netherlands (and also from Belgium and France) were not transferred in their entirety to Auschwitz, but at the station Cosel (Upper Silesia, ± 80 K.M. west of Auschwitz), were divided in such a way that the men deemed fit by the Ger…