Date of birth:

September 23rd, 1925 (Berlin, Germany)

Date of death:

September 16th, 1942 (Deurne/Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands)

Buried on:

Grave Erwin Michael Joseph

Nationality:

German

Michael Joseph, son of Kurt Joseph and Elly Glogau, fled Nazi Germany with his family to Amsterdam. After his father's death, his mother remarried Heinz Graumann. Michael grew up in a city that temporarily seemed safe.

At the age of 16, in 1942, he was taken from a hiding place in the Vlierdense Ven by human traffickers. Instead of being taken to a new safe house, he was murdered with an iron bar and buried in the De Bikkels woods.

On June 23, 1945, the perpetrator pointed out the grave. Michael was reburied in Deurne, in a Protestant cemetery on Helmondseweg. When it was discovered that he was Jewish, a rabbi bought the grave and installed a new stone. This section of the cemetery has been officially Jewish since 1994.

The grave, now a municipal monument, bears the inscription:
"Jewish refugee from Nazism murdered by men promising safety. His parents survived. Hidden by local citizens."

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• - Eindhovens Dagblad 5 February 1994

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