Family Fryling-Rozenes

Sender Bynem Fryling and Chaja Terna Rozenes were both born in Poland but would not meet until later in Belgium. Sender Bynem was born on December 15, 1903 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Chaja Terna was born on November 30, 1909 in Pilica. At the age of twenty, Sender Bynem arrived in Belgium and went to live in Brussels at Komediantenstraat 9. Six years later he moved to Eloystraat 89 in Anderlecht. He was a mechanic. Chaja Terna arrived in Belgium in July 1928. She went to live with her uncle Moses Rozenes at Transvaalstraat 29 in Anderlecht. She was a cardboard worker.

In the meantime, Sender and Chaja met each other and in October 1930 they moved to Loofstraat 48 in Brussels. One year later, on January 24, 1931, they got married. In the same year they moved to Loixplein 18 and shortly afterwards to Stenen-Kruisstraat 38 in Saint-Gilles. On May 24, 1931, their son Samuel Fryling was born in the hospital of Forest. Four years later, on May 5, 1935, little daughter Claire-Hélène was born in Ixelles. Meanwhile the family moved to Merodestraat 57 where they continued to live until they ended up in the assembly camp in Mechelen.

In May 1940 Nazi Germany invaded Belgium. The Fryling-Rozenes family obeyed the anti-Jewish laws of the occupation authorities. In November 1940, they registered in the municipal Register of Jews. The entire family was arrested in the only major raid in Brussels during the night of 3 to 4 September 1942. Most of the arrested Jews were added to the deportation list of transport VIII in the Dossin Barracks. The deportation list of transport VIII that left on September 8 was thus completed. The Fryling-Rozenes family was added to the registration list of transport IX, along with 278 remaining Jews arrested during the Brussels raid. Transport IX had a total of 1,000 deportees.

Transport IX departed on September 12, 1942 and stopped in Kosel, about 100 kilometers before Auschwitz-Birkenau. Men between the ages of fifteen and fifty had to disembark in Kosel and were then distributed to various forced labor camps for Jews that depended on the Organisation Schmelt in Upper Silesia. Sender Bynem fell within the age category, but we are not certain whether he got off or not. In any case, he did not survive the war. Chaja Terna and her children Samuel and Claire continued on to Auschwitz-Birkenau where they were murdered. None of the family survived the war.