Chaja Kluger

The Steinfeld-Klugers were Polish Jews who emigrated before the First World War, in 1912. They settled in Antwerp. In 1933, Moishe Steinfeld died. His wife, Chaja Kluger, was already 70. She lived in Zurenborgstraat where 43 people had already been arrested in the summer raids. Chaja Kluger entered the Dossin Barracks on 12 October 1942. At 89 years old, she was one of the oldest victims of the entire deportation from Belgium. On 24 October 1942 Transport 14 took her to a certain death at Auschwitz-Birkenau.