Heel graag verwelkomen wij u aanstaande zondag vanaf 17:30 uur. Wij staan tijdens de Tocht van Vrees en Hoop stil bij het grootste transport van gevangenen (1439 mannen) vanuit Kamp Amersfoort naar het station en uiteindelijke naar #Neuengamme.
Zien we u dan?
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![Franz Robert Spier was one of the people murdered that day.
He was arrested together with his wife Justine Leonie (Tineke) Spier-Bendien and their foster child on a bus from Tilburg while attempting to flee to England. From December 9, 1941, they were imprisoned in the #Oranjehotel (Scheveningen prison).
While there, Justine embroidered her name on a handkerchief. On September 28, 1942, she was transported to #Ravensbrück concentration camp. She spent time in the Bunker (camp prison), but it was not known that she was Jewish. In early March 1945, she was deported to #Mauthausen, where she died of kidney poisoning shortly before the liberation.
Franz was first send to Camp Amersfoort from where he was transported to Westerbork and immediately on to Auschwitz where he was killed on arrival.
Justine was 24 and Franz was 29. There is no information on their foster child.
Jaques Premselaar, the only survivor of the transport of August 17, recalls in his statement to the RIOD the arrival in Auschwitz: “On August 20, if I am not mistaken, the train […] arrived in Birkenau. […] All young men and young women were set apart, while women with children and elderly were carried off together. […] We went to Birkeanu, were shaved, tattooed and I received number 59905. The first days were horrible, luckily I stayed there for just under two weeks, or else I would not have survived. In Birkenau both men and women had to build the crematoria, which did not yet exist.”
photo: Franz and Justine.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7s22kjzi3volj3spk2q3c6pa/bafkreicun34gepwlfpmdrvkp3azij25t3g2ylp2a3q4mdrxnnddurtchom)
