Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database
Verklaring van Arthur Pop, geboren 23 September 1912 te Amsterdam. (ID: 14594)
Title (In English):
Statement of Arthur Pop, born Setpember 23, 1912, in Amsterdam.
List Type:
Government record
List Organized By:
Random
Generating Agency:
Dutch Institute for War Documentation
Document Date:
7 Nov 1947
Sex:
Male
Number of Persons (Est.):
15
Nationality:
- Dutch
- French
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Polish
Persecution Status:
Jew
Document Format:
Typed Document
Language:
Dutch
Number of Pages (Exact):
8
Legibility:
Easily Legible Text
Notes:
This is a testimony of a survivor of the October 19, 1943, transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz. In addition to the information about him in the title, the document also includes his prewar and postwar addresses and his prisoner number at Auschwitz-Birkenau. He mentions his encounters with Greek, French, Hungarian, and Polish prisoners but doesn not name them. He also identifies a fellow Dutch prisoner, one of his friends, by name.
Place From:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Birkenau
- Jawischowitz
- Moerdijk
- Stuifzand
- Venlo
- Vught
- Westerbork
Place To:
- Birkenau
- Jawischowitz
- Moerdijk
- Stuifzand
- Venlo
- Vught
- Westerbork
Place of Liberation:
Birkenau
Postwar Place:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Auschwitz, Poland
Prewar Place:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Reel:
369
