The Ginger family

Aged 15 the day Transport 3 left on 15 August 1942, Mojsesz Icehek was summoned to the Dossin Barracks for work service, as was his 20-year-old sister, Estera Frymeta.

Transport III

Mojsesz Icehek Ginger, his mother Cyrla Buchman and his older sister, Estera Frymeta, at the end of the 1920s The father, Lejb Joseph Ginger, at the end of the 1920s

Aged 15 the day Transport 3 left on 15 August 1942, Mojsesz Icehek was summoned to the Dossin Barracks for work service, as was his 20-year-old sister, Estera Frymeta. This entire family of Polish Jews living in the heart of Brussels was summoned: the mother, Cyrla, 52, and the father, Lejb Joseph Ginger, 53, a tailor in Rue Haute. Only 362 men and women of the 1,000 deportees on this transport were accepted in the camp, the Ginger family disappeared without a trace.

Publication info

ADRIAENS Ward, STEINBERG Maxime (et al.), Mecheln-Auschwitz, 1942-1944. The destruction of Jews and gypsies from Belgium, 4 volumes, Brussels, 2009

Dr. Maxime Steinberg & Dr. Laurence Schram

ginger Estera Frymeta

22 years old

ginger Lejb Joseph

54 years old

ginger Mojsesz Icehek

19 years old

buchman Cyrla

52 years old

Memorial Kazerne Dossin