Walter Roseboom

Walter Roseboom, a German Jew, was a cattle trader and farmer who came from Leers to Brussels in 1939, shortly before the beginning of the war. A resident of Schaerbeek, Brussels, he stayed in his legal domicile until at least March 1943. His brother Iwan Ludwig Roseboom joined him in February. The younger of the two had been prosecuted in 1935 for Rassenschande, i.e. sexual relations with an Aryan woman on the basis of the new Nüremberg legislation, and had sought refuge in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in 1938. An informer betrayed Iwan Ludwig to the Currency Protection Kommando, accusing him of owning gold and other valuables, which led to the arrest of the two brothers in Brussels. Taken to the Dossin Barracks on 8 May 1943, Walter Roseboom, 41, and Iwan Ludwig, 40, were deported on Transport 21, on 31 July. Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 2 August, both disappeared without a trace. The immediate execution rate for the men on Transport 21 was 67%.