Transport VII

  • Transport date: 01/09/1942
  • Number of deportees at departure: 1000
  • Successful escapes:
  • Number of deportees on arrival:
  • Concentration camps survivors: 15

Stories
Family Kurier

Family Kurier

The Kurier family fled Austria for fear of persecution by the Gestapo. Mother Fryme Eisgrau died early in 1924. Father Hersch Kurier and his children Frederika, Jeannette and Regine were all deported from the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen to Auschwitz-Birkenau. None of the Kurier family survived the war.

Boris Averbruch

Boris Averbruch

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.

The Minz-Zucker family

The Minz-Zucker family

This family of Palestinian Jews lived in the Antwerp suburb of Borgerhout. Transport 7 of 1 September brought them to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The Gunsberg-Bernstein family

The Gunsberg-Bernstein family

These Polish Jewish refugees who came from Vienna in 1939, Jakob Gunsberg, his wife Reizel Bernstein and their son Gideon lived in Korte Van Ruusbroeckstraat.

The Fischler-Hollander family

The Fischler-Hollander family

Mojzecs Fischler and his family, his wife Serka Hollander, 44, his oldest daughter Sonia Laja, 20, the youngest Beila Ruchla, 13, Munisz, 12, and Jozef, 8, were taken to Mechelen on 29 August 1942.

The Vos-Nabarro family

The Vos-Nabarro family

These Dutch Jews from Antwerp, Emilius Vos, a 31-year-old diamond worker, Rebecca Nabarro, 28 and their children lived in what was called the Jewish quarter, which lay within the bounds of the second great nighttime raid organized in Antwerp.