Aaron Wyman and Rica de Vrede had one child: Isidore Isaac. Aaron and Rica were deported with transport XX to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Isidore received Belgian citizenship on February 8, 1939 but was deported on transport XXIIB. No one from the Wyman-De Vrede family survived the war.
The family Spirn-Stick was a large family consisting of father Leib Spirn, mother Ruchel Stick and their seven children: Gitel, Moses Chaksel, Laie, Bine Sara, Izaak, Esther and Hanna. Via transport XI and transport XX, the entire Spirn-Stick family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. None of them survived the war.
The Borenchole-Landsberg family was deported with transport XX from the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Mother Fejga and daughter Thérèse were murdered. Their son, Salomon, was not deported and survived the war. Father Abraham Joseph survived his captivity in Auschwitz and came back to Belgium in 1945, together with Salomon.
The family had great travel plans, but they were unable to fulfil them. Their daughter Nelly was an orphan during the war.
The couple escaped the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. A recent testimony provides the reconstruction of their incredible life story.
The tragic story of the Kempner-Rozen family. Only father Moszek survived the war.
Kurt Friedrich Posener was a German Jew who had sought refuge in Brussels shortly after the Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938. His son, Ludwig, then aged 12, came with him.
Majer Tabakman emigrated from Poland in 1928 and settled in Saint-Gilles, a commune of Brussels, where he worked as a clicker (shoe leather cutter). Rosa Kibel arrived from Poland in 1931.
Berta Landskroner and Leib Reig were Jewish refugees expelled from the Reich in 1939 who settled in Brussels.
Jew and mother of two, Rachel Souritz joined the resistance during the war. She suffered a huge loss. Not only was her first partner executed, but her father, brother and sister were deported via the Dossin barracks and never returned. Rachel was a firm believer in the importance of human rights, a cause she championed throughout her life. In the name of the family, daughter Paulette De Coninck gifted original photographs and documents to Kazerne Dossin. Consequently, Rachel’s sister Pauline now has a face on the wall of portraits.
