The Inowlocki-Mandel family

Abram Inowlocki and his wife, Elisabeth Mandel, emigrated from Poland to Belgium in 1937. As relatively late arrivals they were affected by the regulations in effect in 1940-1941, which forced them to live in the Province of Limburg. Abram Inowlocki, Elisabeth Mandel and their son Michel, then aged 6, were exiled to the village of Kuringen. Although they were allowed to return to Antwerp on 29 May 1941, they stayed only five months before moving to Brussels. Despite the move they were arrested on 30 September. Abram Inowlocki was then 35, and Elisabeth Mandel was 30. She was seven months pregnant. A pregnant mother accompanied by a young child had absolutely no chance on Transport 12 on arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The convoy left together with Transport 13, on 10 October 1942. Grouped together on arrival, the deportees were the object of a special action carried out by the SS killers. More than 80 % of the women from the two transports were executed after disembarkation. The records make no mention of Abram Inowlocki whatsoever.