Transport XXIIA

  • Transport date: 20/09/1943
  • Number of deportees at departure: 640
  • Successful escapes:
  • Number of deportees on arrival:
  • Concentration camps survivors: 32

Stories
Zelik Sztuden and Rosalie Luxberg

Zelik Sztuden and Rosalie Luxberg

Zelik Sztuden and Rosalie Luxberg were deported from the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen to Auschwitz-Birkenau where they were murdered. Both their children survived the war.

Camp doctor Fritz Basch

Camp doctor Fritz Basch

Although Fritz Basch was active as a camp doctor in the Dossin Barracks, he could not protect his family from deportation.

Family Wolff-Halpert

Family Wolff-Halpert

The Wolff-Halpert family hoped for a new life on the other side of the ocean, but arrived.

Edith Silbiger

Edith Silbiger

Edith Silbiger, personal secretary to the camp commander, was put on transport XXIIA.

Paul Halter

Paul Halter

Paul Halter was born in Geneva on 10 October 1920. He was just one year old when he came to Belgium with his parents, Jozef Halter and Ryfka Horowitz, both Polish Jews.

Alexandre Pinkus

Alexandre Pinkus

Alexandre Pinkus, a Polish Jew, was a chemical engineer and doctor in physical sciences, and a graduate of Paris and Geneva.

The Gruszow family

The Gruszow family

Feiwel Gruszow, a diamond worker, emigrated from Poland in 1909, and Ilse Oppenheimer from Germany in 1928.