The Goldsteinas-Vistinezki family

Lithuanian Jews, Mendelis Goldsteinas and Hinda Vistinezki emigrated to Belgium in 1924 and 1925 respectively. They settled in Forest, a borough of Brussels. He was a doctor of chemistry and she was an office worker. They were arrested together in February 1943 and sent to the Dossin Barracks on the 19th. They were deported on Transport 20 on 19 April 1943. They were in the fifteenth truck roughly in the middle of the train. Between Boortmeerbeek and Wespelaer, only thirteen kilometres from Mechelen, Youra Livschitz and his two companions, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon, managed to bring the train to a halt. They succeeded in opening this truck and fifteen or so deportees got out, even though the Schupo guards were shooting at them. Mendelis Goldsteinas, 41, and Hinda Vistinezki, 37, were both given a 50 franc note, and managed to find their way back to Brussels where they went into hiding and stayed out of the clutches of the Germans until the liberation.