Lotte joined the communist resistance to destabilise the Wehrmacht.

Hertha Ligeti joined the communist resistance to destabilise the Wehrmacht.

Marianne was with two other friends active in a communist resistance group and tried to destabilise the Wehrmacht.

The Kotas – Kacai family were deported on a different transport from the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen to Auschwitz-Birkenau. No one survived.

Having emigrated from Poland in 1929, the whole family settled in Antwerp. On 9 october 1942 the whole family was taken to the Dossin Barracks.  

Malka Badner, a Polish Jew, arrived in Belgium before the First World War, in 1912. Jozef Markus Langenauer arrived later. They had three children.

This family of Polish Jews fled from Germany to Belgium in 1939. The father, aged 47 when he was deported, worked as a commercial traveller. The mother, Ester Neugebohr, a 38-year-old housewife, looked after her three younger children with the help of her oldest daughter, Hilda Charlotte, 21.

Polish-born Salomon Seewald came to Belgium in 1924. Fradel Schenkel, whom he married in Belgium, also came from Poland. Salomon Seewald earned his living as a trader. He and his wife signed the Jewish register in Antwerp in December 1940, but moved to Profondeville in de Province of Namur in January 1941 before restrictions were…