Relative Who Died in World War II
Many people in Europe will have one or more relatives who died in World War II. I’m no exception. An uncle of my father was one of the unlucky people who was inprisoned for hiding a jewish child. He died in Germany in Hamburg.
I allready knew this story – or at least fragments of it because my father had talked about it a few times. Then a few searches on the internet revealed some more detailed information and I was quite surprised.
I found the site http://www.ogs.nl/ where war graves of casualties from the World War II are listed. And so was my father’s uncle Jacob Antonie Mudde. Even better was the fact that his profession was mentioned, and a picture of his tombstone. I never expected to find that.
I then found http://www.its-arolsen.org/en (international tracing service) where I requested more information. I got a copy of his prisoner card from Camp Vught amongst other things.
He was commited to the concentration camp Herzogenbusch (Vught) on May 19th 1944, was later transfered via Amsterdam to Concentration Camp Neuengamme and died in prison Hamburg on November 12th 1944 at 7 pm from dysentery. They also sent me a copy of his deathdocument (sterbeurkunde).
This way a relative I never knew (Wasn’t born yet) becomes a lot closer. Also the war comes much closer. It may be over 60 years ago that he died, He certainly isn’t forgotten.
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WIllem Kossen
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