Malka Sobel and her son Saul Hirschberger

Polish Jews living in Antwerp, Saul Hirschberger and his mother, Malka Sobel were summoned to the Dossin Barracks on 27 August 1942.

Malka Sobel and her son Saul Hirschberger
Saul Hirschberger and his mother Malka Sobel, in the 1930s

Polish Jews living in Antwerp, Saul Hirschberger, 10, and his mother, Malka Sobel, 43, a housewife who was bringing up her son alone, were summoned to the Dossin Barracks on 27 August 1942. Transport 6 took them to Auschwitz-Birkenau where they disappeared without trace.

Publication info

ADRIAENS Ward, STEINBERG Maxime (et al.), Mecheln-Auschwitz, 1942-1944. The destruction of Jews and gypsies from Belgium, 4 volumes, Brussels, 2009

Dr. Maxime Steinberg & Dr. Laurence Schram