A few peculiarities of this convoy are that the composition of this convoy was already started on 29 August, in the first place with Jews who were arrested during the big raid in Antwerp in the night before. The system of "calls" was still in force but was not sufficient to reach the desired number of persons to be deported. Only 99 people on the transport list have the indication of their "job call" for the so-called work expansion in Germany.
The process therefore no longer seems effective, so a first major raid is held in the capital of Brussels. The city police was not cooperative because of the totally new reluctance of the Brussels mayors to carry out the German orders concerning the Jewish issue.During the night of 3 to 4 September, the German police force surrounded the neighborhood of the South Station with the help of the Flemish SS. From 4 September, 718 people were registered in the Dossin barracks. Because of the big raid of the South Station the list of the 8th convoy could be closed and the organisation and composition of the 9th convoy could be started that same day.
The 8th convoy with a total of 1000 persons, including 238 children, departed from Mechelen on 8 September 1942 and arrived in Auschwitz on 10 September. The convoy stops in Kozel, just like the previous two transports. A maximum of 281 people must leave the train there, the rest was sent on to Auschwitz. There still 85 people were registered, of which 64 women. Of the two selections only 34 people survived at the liberation of the camps. Most of the deportees, mainly women and children, were killed on the same day of arrival. At least 634 people fell under the "special actions" of the SS, very precisely on 10 September, as the SS doctor who cooperated, in his diary.
Source: Historic review of the Convoys from the Memorial of the Deportation of the Belgian Jews, page 24.