This story has torn my heart open. I can’t tell you too much about Johannes van der Hoek all I can tell you is that he was born on 6 November 1942, in Westerbork. He must have been placed on a transport to Auschwitz, straight after his birth because, he was murdered there on 9 November 1942, with his mother and his two-year-old sister, Johanna, just three days after he was born.
His father was murdered a few months later on 30 April 1943, also in Auschwitz.
The very sad irony is that Johannes’s birthday, 6 November 1942, was the day the Soviet POWs mutinied and escaped from Birkenau. Under cover of fog and falling darkness, they forced their way past the SS guard posts into a part of the Birkenau camp, that was still under construction and not fenced. Unfortunately, the majority of them were either shot or caught during the escape.
Why a three-day-old baby—why?
sources
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/resistance/prisoner-mutinies/
https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/190314/johannes-van-der-hoek
https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/tijdlijn/Johannes-van-der-Hoek/01/65244
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