Benjamin, Karl

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”.
Benjamin, Karl
Date of birth 1918
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.
Amsterdam
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.
NL
Document Haitian citizenship certificate
Fate perished

Benjamin, Karl Israel (1918–1944?)

Born on 4 August 1918 in Cologne, Germany. His wife was Adele “Hannah” Bloch (later Hanna Kohner after her second husband).

Karl and Adele married in Amsterdam in 1942, in first order to save Karl from being arrested. Nevertheless, a year later both were detained and transported to Westerbork, where they awaited deportation to Theresienstadt, and thence to the extermination camp of Auschwitz. In November 1944, Hannah – thanks to the assistance of her brother, who was a doctor and happened to be in the camp at the time – was moved to Mauthausen. She survived the War, but Karl probably perished in the concentration camp