Louis van Blijdestein <i>(Lou /Loe)</i>
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Louis van Blijdestein (Lou /Loe)


 19-05-1915 Sittard      15-03-1945 Auschwitz (29)
- Sittard - Jews in resistance -

    Laboratory employee at the oil company B.P.M., member of the resistance. [4] What kind of resistance he did, in which organization and how he was caught, we don’t know (yet).
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    Louis van Blijdestein, born in Sittard in 1915, was a son of the religious teacher Nathan Bernhard Blijdestein from Zaltbommel and Sophia Kransberg from Zutphen, who were married in 1905. Since September 1937 Louis stayed in Amsterdam, at a dozen addresses but per February 1941, he was registered as resident at the address Molenbeekstraat 10 in Amsterdam. Afterwards. Louis has moved another five times. He married 22 October in Amsterdam the roman-catholic Elisabeth Hubertina Canton from Roosteren (province of Limburg), who stayed also since September 1937 in Amsterdam. She too resided at various addresses and she has survived the war.
    On 16 April 1944, Louis en Elisabeth had a twin, a daughter and a son. Both children have survived the Holocaust just as their mother Elisabeth Hubertina Canton.
     [1]

    Lou was deported from Amsterdam via Westerbork to Auschwitz on September 3, 1944. On this day he appears on a list with the designation Judentransport aus den Niederlanden (transport of Jews from the Netherlands). [2#5]
    The statement of the Red Cross information office goes on saying:
    In view of the fact that nothing has been heard from or about the person sought since their deportation, it must be assumed that the said Louis van Blijdestein died as a result of illness, exhaustion or gassing.
    Therefore, the place of death is mentioned here as Auschwitz and not Central Europe. The website erelijst.nl also says Auschwitz. [5]
    He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [5]

    Footnotes

    1. joodsmonument.nl: Louis van Blijdestein • NederlandsEnglish
    2. Dossier oorlogsgravenstichting Louis van Blijdestein • # 5
    3. Sittard, oorlogsmonument op de markt
    4. https://www.mijn-genea.nl/genea/member/van-t-hoff/mozes-mendel-van-blijdesteijn/12830846?ref=sz
    5. Erelijst 1940-1945
    6. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl