The Domb-Neugebohr family

This family of Polish Jews fled from Germany to Belgium in 1939. The father, aged 47 when he was deported, worked as a commercial traveller. The mother, Ester Neugebohr, a 38-year-old housewife, looked after her three younger children with the help of her oldest daughter, Hilda Charlotte, 21. The others were Hélène, 14, Max, 13 and Léo, 8. As recent arrivals from Germany in Antwerp they were obliged to go and live in Helchteren, in the neighbouring Province of Limburg. In the summer of 1941, they were allowed to settle in Schaerbeek, a borough from Brussels. David Domb received the summons to the Dossin Barracks, which was sent by the AJB to his home address in Rue Vondel. He was put on Transport 4 on 19 August 1942, and dissapeared without a trace. His family did not last much longer. Ester Neugebohr and her four children were taken to the Sammellager at Mechelen on 7 October 1942, three days before their deportation. When Transport 13 arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the SS directly sent 90% of all the women and girls straight to the gas chambers. Ester Neugebohr, Hilda Charlotte, and the three children they were looking after, had no chance of survival at all.