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

Boris and his mother, Luba Lasowski, are arrested in their house at Montensstraat 64 during a major raid in Antwerp on the night of 28 to 29 August. His ties with the Jewish Association could no longer save him.

These Polish Jews from Antwerp were all summoned to Mechelen, except for Szmul, 15, who had been ent for forced labour in Northern France, and was subsequently sent to Auschwitz on Transport 16 on 31 October 1942.

Polish Jews living in Antwerp, Saul Hirschberger and his mother, Malka Sobel were summoned to the Dossin Barracks on 27 August 1942.

Natan Ramet was born in Warsaw on 5 June 1925. Natan and his father were deported on Transport VI on 29 August 1942. The transport stopped in Kosel, before Auschwitz, where the men were disembarked to be deployed as forced labourers.

These Polish Jews from Antwerp, Jules Skarbek, 3, and his mother, Esther Freude Pech, housewife, 38 , were arrested on 25 August.

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.