Karl Guenther fled Germany in fear of the persecution of Jews by the Gestapo. He received assistance from the Assistance Council for Jewish Refugees. Karl accepted the Arbeitseinsatzbefehl in August 1942 and was deported on transport III from the Dossin Barracks to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He did not survive the war.
Marcus Sluis was a diamond cutter and Adela Zeelander also came from a diamond worker family. Together they had three children: Sara, Clara and Filip. The Sluis-Zeelander family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau via different transports (III, IX and XXI). None of them survived the war.
This entire family of Polish Jews was deported, the majority of them on Transport 10.
Etela Lovi’s two sons were born in Antwerp, the oldest, Frans in 1931, the youngest, Jackie, in 1933. All three were arrested in Antwerp the day before the first raid on 15 August 1942.
Aged 15 the day Transport 3 left on 15 August 1942, Mojsesz Icehek was summoned to the Dossin Barracks for work service, as was his 20-year-old sister, Estera Frymeta.
Aged 16, Leopold Minz was summoned to the Dossin Barracks for Transport 3 on 15 August 1942.
Jenny Imberechts was the young sweetheart of Gabriel Bauden who was deported and never returned. Until her dying day, she kept four photographs of him, a postcard and the letter he threw out of the deportation train. In 2018 family friends gifted the original items to Kazerne Dossin.