Biography

About Sophia Gans-Cardozo

Sophia Cardozo was a daughter of Jacob Cardozo and Elisabeth Koekoek. She married 11 July 1922 in Antwerp to Levie Gans, a son of Hartog Gans and Sara Sluijs.
She was deported on 8 September 1942 with Convoy 8 from Mechelen to Auschwitz and killed upon arrival there.
Sophia was born in a family with five children. She self, and her siblings Esther, Jacob, Judith, and Hendrika have been killed all during the Holocaust.
Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, dossier 166524 - image 498 certificate of marriage and the Memorial of the Deportations of the Belgian Jews.