Szulim Kenigsman

Szulim Kenigsman, a leather worker, emigrated from Poland to Belgium in 1919. He married a fellow Pole, Noma Helholtz, in 1923 and the couple set up home in Anderlecht, Brussels. Szulim fled to France in May 1940 and settled in Paris. He was arrested during an illegal attempt to cross the frontier between occupied and unoccupied France and was detained at the prison in Bourges. Szulim was interned at Pithiviers in late 1941 and then Compiègne, from where he was deported via Transport 2 to Auschwitz-Birkenau on 5 June 1942. Szulim Kenigsman (43) and the other men from this transport were selected on arrival for forced labour. The number 38639 was tattooed on his arm. According to the Auschwitz Sterbebücher (death books), he died on 24 August 1942.