Abraham, Ferdinand
| Surname, Name The spelling of names follows “Spis imion żydowskich” [The list of Jewish first names] (Warszawa 1928), as it was the only means to avoid the doubling of people on the list. Exception was made for famous individuals whose names are widely known in another form than that proposed in “Spis”.
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Abraham, Ferdinand |
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| Date of birth | 1897 |
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Location The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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Amsterdam |
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State The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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NL |
| Document | passport of Paraguay |
| Fate | perished |
Abraham Ferdinand Israel (1897–1943) – merchant, nursing home owner
Born on 30 August 1897 in the German village of Brandoberndorf. On 22 May 1922, he married Emmy née Frank. The couple had five children: Berthold, Edith Paula, Beate, Bertram and Siegbert.
Initially, they lived in the German village of Brandoberndorf, then they emigrated to the Netherlands. They settled in the building at 5 Jekerstraat in Amsterdam, where they set up a nursing home.
In June 1943, the Abraham family was arrested and sent to the Westerbork transit camp. On 20 July 1943, Ferdinand, his wife and their four children (Edith Paula, Beate, Bertram and Siegbert) were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and later to the extermination camp in Sobibór. They died on 23 July 1943.