Chana Scheiner

Chana Scheiner, a Polish Jew, emigrated from Switzerland to Belgium in 1934. Her daughter, Dora, and her son, Mozes, were both born in Antwerp, the first in 1935 and the second in 1939. She brought her children up alone during the occupation. She lived in Schoenstraat, in the Antwerp borough of Borgerhout. With only three arrests, this was a street that had gone relatively untouched by the raids of summer 1942. On 7 December, Chana Scheiner, 42, her children, Mozes, 5, and Dora, 7, were interned in the Dossin Sammellager in Mechelen. They were put on Transport 18 on 15 January 1943.

When Transport 18 arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, on 18 January, the SS sent 90% of the women and girls off for immediate execution. Chana Scheiner and her two young children were exactly the sort of people the SS wanted to eliminate. The family disappeared without a trace.