Abraham Voorzanger

Abraham Voorzanger, born in 1920 in Rotterdam, was a son of Isaac Voorzanger and Jansje Park. He was one of the nine children in this family, of whom presumably two brothers and two sisters might have survived the war. The Voorzanger family stayed sometimes in Belgium, sometimes in Holland but resided lately at Bikschotelaan 159 at Berchem (province of Antwerp) which was their last known address. …

Volgens een van de Sterbebücher van Auschwitz is Abraham Voorzanger daar op 9 februari 1943 overleden.

The 16th and 17th convoy, which have been merged after their depart from Mechelen, deported in total 1676 persons, among them 137 children. For the first time, mass escapes had taken place at the Belgian section of the railroad track; 24 deportees jumped from the rolling train.

This transport was different from the previous one. The deportation of 31 October 1942 mainly concerned men. The convoy w…