Son of Rivka and Otto Adler, Czechoslovakian Jews who had emigrated to Belgium.
Zigmond was 3 when the Germans occupied Belgium. Two years later, the Germans deported his father for forced labor. After that, Zigmond's stepmother left Liege, giving Zigmond to Uncle Jermie and Aunt Chaje. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews in Liege, some of Uncle Jermie's Catholic friends helped them get false papers that hid their Jewish identity and rented them a house in a nearby village. Two years later, early one Sunday morning, the Gestapo came to the house. They suspected Jews were living there.
Zigmond, his aunt and two cousins were sent to the Mechelen internment camp, and then to Auschwitz, where 7-year-old Zigmond was gassed on May 21, 1944.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.∼Belgian-Jewish boy, Sigmund Adler was born in Ougree, Belgium. In 1944, he was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered in a gas chamber after selection. We must remember them.
Zigmond was 3 when the Germans occupied Belgium. Two years later, the Germans deported his father for forced labor. After that, Zigmond's stepmother left Liege, giving Zigmond to Uncle Jermie and Aunt Chaje. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews in Liege, some of Uncle Jermie's Catholic friends helped them get false papers that hid their Jewish identity and rented them a house in a nearby village. Two years later, early one Sunday morning, the Gestapo came to the house. They suspected Jews were living there.
Zigmond, his aunt and two cousins were sent to the Mechelen internment camp, and then to Auschwitz, where 7-year-old Zigmond was gassed on May 21, 1944.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.∼Belgian-Jewish boy, Sigmund Adler was born in Ougree, Belgium. In 1944, he was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered in a gas chamber after selection. We must remember them.
Son of Rivka and Otto Adler, Czechoslovakian Jews who had emigrated to Belgium.
Zigmond was 3 when the Germans occupied Belgium. Two years later, the Germans deported his father for forced labor. After that, Zigmond's stepmother left Liege, giving Zigmond to Uncle Jermie and Aunt Chaje. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews in Liege, some of Uncle Jermie's Catholic friends helped them get false papers that hid their Jewish identity and rented them a house in a nearby village. Two years later, early one Sunday morning, the Gestapo came to the house. They suspected Jews were living there.
Zigmond, his aunt and two cousins were sent to the Mechelen internment camp, and then to Auschwitz, where 7-year-old Zigmond was gassed on May 21, 1944.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.∼Belgian-Jewish boy, Sigmund Adler was born in Ougree, Belgium. In 1944, he was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered in a gas chamber after selection. We must remember them.
Zigmond was 3 when the Germans occupied Belgium. Two years later, the Germans deported his father for forced labor. After that, Zigmond's stepmother left Liege, giving Zigmond to Uncle Jermie and Aunt Chaje. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews in Liege, some of Uncle Jermie's Catholic friends helped them get false papers that hid their Jewish identity and rented them a house in a nearby village. Two years later, early one Sunday morning, the Gestapo came to the house. They suspected Jews were living there.
Zigmond, his aunt and two cousins were sent to the Mechelen internment camp, and then to Auschwitz, where 7-year-old Zigmond was gassed on May 21, 1944.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.∼Belgian-Jewish boy, Sigmund Adler was born in Ougree, Belgium. In 1944, he was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered in a gas chamber after selection. We must remember them.
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