Jacob Roos

Jacob Roos was a son of Levie Roos and Sara Binger. He was born in Rotterdam on 11 December 1884, had already three siblings: Roosje born in 1880, who has been killed in Auschwitz on 6 September 1944; Heiman born in 1881 but who died already on 4 February 1882, just four months old and Maria born in 1882, of whom place and date of death is (still) unknown. After the birth of Jacob in 1884 another …

A few peculiarities of this convoy are that the composition of this convoy was already started on 29 August, in the first place with Jews who were arrested during the big raid in Antwerp in the night before. The system of "calls" was still in force but was not sufficient to reach the desired number of persons to be deported. Only 99 people on the transport list have the indication of their "job ca…

After five months of German occupation, the persecution of the Jews in Belgium started in the autumn of 1940. In October 1940, a start is made with the separation of Jews from Belgian social life. All Jews must first be registered and located for this purpose. However, the German occupier has a major administrative problem: Belgian legislation nowhere registers who is of Jewish origin.

The first G…