On 27 March 1943, Samuel’s mother Rachel Gans-Gans and his twin-sister Sara Gans were registered in Westerbork. Presumably they were arrested for some offence of the many anti-Jewish regulations from the Germans, why in Westerbork they ended up in the penal barrack 67. On 30 March 1943 mother and daughter were put on transport to Sobibor and on arrival there on 2 April 1942 immediately killed in t…