Leescorfstraat 55

Mendel Fishel and his wife Emily Black called for so-called work experience even though they are already over the age limit at 54 and 55 years old. In Auschwitz-Birkenau they had no chance of survival.

Mendel Fishel was born in 1888 in Kedainiai, Lithuania. He worked as a manufacturer. In 1915 he married Emily Black, born in 1887 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

His two eldest sons were born in Liverpool: Maurice Bernard (Benny) in 1916 and Léonard (Len) in 1920. Not long after, the family moved to Antwerp.
In December 1921, his second son, Léon, was born. Mendel left Belgium to import English textiles. His sons are extremely sporty. For example, Léon is part of the football team Maccabi.

When war broke out in 1940, Maurice and Leonard, the two eldest sons, who had British nationality, were arrested by nationality, arrested by the Nazis as enemy aliens. They were imprisoned in internment camps (Internierungslager) in Poland and Austria. Despite everything, they survived.

In June 1942, the youngest, Léon Fishel, was arrested by the Nazis and sent for forced labor in northern France. He became a convict used by the Todt Organization.

In August, his parents Mendel Fishel and Emily Black received a call for a so-called work order (Arbeitseinsatzbefehl). The couple reported with their work order at Dossin barracks on August 24, 1942. Mendel and Emily were registered on the transport list of the fifth convoy and deported together to Auschwitz.

Aged 54 and 55 respectively, they had virtually no chance of survival at the end of their stay. chance of survival after a strict selection process: the SS sent 781 of the 996 deportees to the gas chambers. Only 27 deportees, all men, from Transport V survived.

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