The Wolf-Marinower family

Renée, 5, and Nathan, 3, were arrested in the night of 15-16 September 1942 in their home at 189 Kroonstraat, during the last of the great raids in Antwerp. Their mother, Rosa Marinower, 27, was taken with them. The death rate on Transport 4 was 83%, one of the highest for a transport from Belgium. This meant that the mother and her two young children had virtually no chance of survival. All three disappearedwithout leaving a trace.

Their father, Isak Wolf, a diamond cleaver, was sent for forced labour in the North of France. He escaped in October but was arrested on 1 June 1943 in Brussels and jailed in Saint-Gilles prison. He was finally taken to the Dossin Barracks on 22 February 1944. Deported to Auschwitz on Transport 24, he was repatriated to Belgium on 8 May 1945.