The Sztokfisz family

The boy was 13 in August 1942, his mother 38. There were three other children, Isaac, 2, Oskar, 8, old and Charlotte, 10, in this family of Polish Jews. Living at Marinisstraat 2, in Antwerp’s borough of Borgerhout, they were at the very heart of the first great raid and put on Transport 4. They were made all the more vulnerable by the absence of the father, Jacob Sztokfisz, 41. He was forced to work for the Organisation Todt in France. He was deported on 31 October 1942 on Transport 16. By the time he arrived in Auschwitz, the rest of his family had already been dead for two months. Like them, the father disappeared without trace.