Serka Hollander, her son, Jozef, and her husband, Mojzecs Fischler, in the 1930s and the children Sonia Laja Fischler, Munisz Fischler, Beila Ruchla Fischler
Mojzecs Fischler, a 50-year-old orthodox Jew and diamond broker, lived inBorgerhout on the edge of Antwerp’s Jewish quarter. Twelve Jews were arrested in his street, the Bouwhandelstraat, during the night of the second raid. Mojzecs Fischler and his family, his wife Serka Hollander, 44, his oldest daughter Sonia Laja, 20, the youngest Beila Ruchla, 13, Munisz, 12, and Jozef, 8, were taken to Mechelen on 29 August 1942. On 1 September, Transport 7 took them to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eighty-five percent of the women on this transport were executed as soon as they arrived, which meant that a mother with one grown daughter and three younger children faced certain death. The Fischler-Hollander family then disappeared without a trace.
