Feiwel Gruszow and Ilse Oppenheimer wearing the star in 1942 - Their daughter, Félicie (on the left) in 1935
Feiwel Gruszow, a diamond worker, emigrated from Poland in 1909, and Ilse Oppenheimer from Germany in 1928. They married in Antwerp in 1930. Their daughter, Félicie, was born the following year. As Jews who had settled in Antwerp, they went to hide in the Durbuy region, in the Ardennes. Félicie, 11, was housed in a convent in this small town, while the parents lived secretly in Petit-Han, but were eventually betrayed. They entered the Dossin Barracks on 3 August 1943, and were deported on Transport 22 A (as Ausländer/foreigners) on 20 September 1943. Feiwel Gruszow, 42, and Ilse Oppenheimer, 37, disappeared as soon as they arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 22 September 1943.
At the end of the war, Félicie, who was then 13, became an orphan of the Shoah.
