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Eduard Schneider, a commercial clerk, applied for asylum in Belgium on 21 November 1938. He no longer felt safe in his native Vienna in the aftermath of Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938). Eduard was placed in the refugee centre at Merksplas, where he was arrested by the Belgian authorities on 10 May 1940. He was handed over to the French administration and interned at Angoulême. He escaped in late July 1940 and travelled to Paris.
Eduard made an illegal attempt to cross the frontier between occupied and unoccupied France at the village of Dole in spring 1942. He was arrested, and at the end of May 1942, was transferred from the prison at Fort d’Hauteville to the Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp. Eduard Schneider (31) was deported from there on 28 June 1942 via Transport 5 to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He and the other men on the train were assigned to the labour camp on arrival. The number 43499 was tattooed on his arm. All trace of him then disappears. He did not survive deportation.