Samuel Gans

On 27 March 1943, Samuel’s mother Rachel Gans-Gans and his twin-sister Sara Gans were registered in Westerbork. Presumably they were arrested for some offence of the many anti-Jewish regulations from the Germans, why in Westerbork they ended up in the penal barrack 67. On 30 March 1943 mother and daughter were put on transport to Sobibor and on arrival there on 2 April 1942 immediately killed in t…

Samuel is een zoon van Meijer Gans en Rachel Gans. Hij had een tweelingzus: Sara

Bron SAA archiefkaart Meijer Gans 1-6-1874

Samuel Gans died on 16 December 1942 in Reichsautobahnlager Annaberg, Upper Silesia, Germany (today Poland).

The official cause of death: pulmonary edema (Lungenodem).

Source: the official death certificate issued by German authorities (Standesamt).

Meijer Gans was married to Rachel Gans. The couple lived at 20 Henriëtte Ronnerplein, second floor, in Amsterdam.

In January 1942, an obituary was placed in Het Joodsche Weekblad for Meijer Gans.
//Amsterdam municipal archive, Records Jokos, Möbel-claim 15879, property Joods Maatschappelijk Werk;
Het Joodsche Weekblad, 16 January 1942//

In addition, a Jokos file (number 15879) on this family …

Research into the wartime civil registries of one of the civil registry offices in Upper Silesias (Poland) discovered many records that corresponded to deaths of inmates from the "Reichsautobahnlager Annaburg" and "Zwangsarbeitslager Niederkirch" camps.

A certificate of death for Samuel Gans as discovered there, stated that he died on 16 December 1942  in Camp Annaberg. In it was mentioned an offi…

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…

Twee bladzijden van een lijst van joodse goudhandelaren d.d. 15 januari 1942, illegaal uit het Hoofdbureau van Politie meegenomen door rechercheur Willem Klarenbeek en op diens verzoek gefotografeerd door Bart de Kok.

Hieruit blijkt dat NSB-fotograaf Bart de Kok foto's heeft gemaakt van illegaal meegenomen stukken uit het hoofdbureau van politie in Amsterdam.
Ik heb deze foto's gevonden via een ar…