Family Sztainke-Zandlowicz
Thanks to the kind women Balthus and Allard, the children are able to go into hiding in the Fraiture castle and survive the war.
Thanks to the kind women Balthus and Allard, the children are able to go into hiding in the Fraiture castle and survive the war.
The tragic story of the Kempner-Rozen family. Only father Moszek survived the war.
The boy was 13 in August 1942, his mother 38. There were three other children, Isaac, 2, Oskar, 8, old and Charlotte, 10, in this family of Polish Jews.
Aged 16, Leopold Minz was summoned to the Dossin Barracks for Transport 3 on 15 August 1942.
This family of Austrian German Jews had settled in Schaerbeek, near Brussels, in July 1938.
Pessa Wolfowicz and Moses Händel were Polish Jews living in Vienna, where they married in 1932. Towards the end of 1937 they emigrated to Antwerp before the Anschluss of Austria.
Szmul Potaszewicz, a Polish Jew, arrived in Belgium in 1923. Marie Zawadzka joined him a year later. In 1925, their daughter, Juliette, was born in Charleroi.
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.
Baruch Brand and his wife, Ita Berger, were Polish Jews who had settled in Antwerp. Their daughter, Augusta Suzanna, was born in December 1938.
Both Polish Jews, Israel Klein, who emigrated in 1928, and Laja Leszczynski in 1931, were both from Berlin. Their son, Alfons, was born in Antwerp in 1932.