Rachel Mintz and her mother, Eva Zucker ca. 1940, the father, Isaac Minz, in the 1930s
This family of Palestinian Jews lived in the Antwerp suburb of Borgerhout. The father, Isaac Mintz, was a 40-year-old tailor. He was sent as a forced labourer to the North of France and was subsequently deported via Mechelen on 31 October 1942 on Transport 17. Following deportation his name disappears. The same applies to his wife, Eva Zucker, 34, and his daughter, Rachel Mintz, 13, who had been deported earlier. They were part of a group of 72 who were summoned to Mechelen. They were registered there on 29 August 1942. Transport 7 of 1 September brought them to Auschwitz-Birkenau where the SS doctors who selected people on arrival, accepted only 86 women for internment, barely 16 % of all the women deported. Neither Eva Zucker, nor Rachel Mintz, her daughter, survived.
