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Document ID: 131884260
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Document Collection: M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York
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Link to Online Archive: Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution | 71410001 - M.18 - Documentation of the Central Location Index (CLI) of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in New York
#holland POR
#belgium arrested in; deported from
Deported on Convoy XXI with her son Wolfgang Wijnman
Transport list (nr. 290 and 291):
https://beeldbank.kazernedossin.eu/index.php/image/watch/d2b00b85bd6d4bf19f488dee18e5dc47b9e3b512e9ee4a99a94216af4f9e5e6936bd5f4369bd4c6bbb9e4958f62826e0?s=63fbe9fe68412&c=5
Picture and story:
https://www.juedspurenhuenfelderland.de/die-jüdischen-familien-in-hünfeld/hünfeld/fam-sondheimer/
https://www.mappingthelives.org/bio/b11c1d5e-ede1-4b81-a6b2-641d8584e0f1
Husband: Benedictus Wijnman
Her husband had already fled to Switzerland, but was sent back by the Swiss army, arrested in France near the Swiss border and deported from France:
https://ressources.memorialdelashoah.org/notice.php?q=identifiant_origine:(FRMEMSH0408707142902)
He left Amsterdam on May 6, 1942, together with his colleague or associate Siegfried Wijnschenk (born in Soerabaya on June 9, 1912), because the Gestapo had threatened the two Jewish men, accusing them of sabotageing some fur orderings for the Wehrmachtsmarine (probably wanting to expropriate them brutally). Wijnman and Wijnschenk managed to cross into Switzerland on May 22 and contacted their consulate in Bern (vice-consul Van der Elst). But the Swiss army was opposed to keeping them, considering them crooked and undesirable. The Swiss civil government, on the contrary, tried to protect them against the enormous danger of being turned back to occupied France. After three months of uncertainty, Benedictus Wijnman and Siegfried Wijnschenk were nevertheless thrown out by the Swiss militaries, though Bern had emitted an internment decree for them. Turned back at the occupied zone border near Geneva, they were immediately seized by the Germans, jailed in Gex, then in Champagnole, and sent to Drancy, from where they were deported to Auschwitz on September 18, 1942 (34th convoy).