The Wiezel-Dreiman family

Avram Wiezel, 37, was a furrier, while Sari Dreiman, 37, kept house. The couple had three children, two of whom were born in Romania, Michael, 16, and Herman, 14. The youngest, Etta, was born in Antwerp in 1929. She was 13 years old when she was arrested with her mother and two brothers during the third great raid in Antwerp. They were taken to Mechelen on 11 September 1942. Transport 10 deported the mother and her three children on 15 September. All four disappeared when they arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The father was not in Antwerp at the time of the raid. He had been sent as a forced labourer to the North of France. After he was deported on 31 October from Mechelen on Transport 16, he managed to jump off the train. Later on he was returned to the Dossin Barracks on 16 December 1943. This time he was entered on the special list attached to Transport 22, as were nineteen other recaptured escapees. He disappears from the records once the transport arrived at Auschwitz on 22 September 1942.