The Peterfreund family, ca. 1935: Bina Peterfreund, her mother Sara Schlachet, her sisters Reizel and Hendel Malka. The father, Moses Leib Peterfreund, when he immigrated in 1932
There were seven members of the Peterfreund-Schlachet family. The father, Moses Leib Peterfreund, arrived in 1932 from Nowy Sacz in Poland. Four years later, his wife, Sara Schlachet, and their first three children, all born in Nowy Sacz, joined him in Antwerp. Two children were born here, Charles in 1938, and Beno in 1942. The family was ensnared in a trap for Jews applying for ration stamps set up in Antwerp’s Festival Hall on the Meir, on 11 and 12 September 1942. Transport 11 of 26 September, which was particularly deadly, took the family to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only the father, Moses Leib Peterfreund, was considered fit for work. Interned in the concentration camp under registration number 66.142, he did not, however, survive captivity. His wife and children disappeared without a trace.
