1928 Family moved from Paris to Brussels

German invasion

Anti-Jewish laws/forced to wear the yellow star-of-David badge/family went underground

Lived under the name Robert Sax

1944 Denunciation to the Gestapo/arrest/Mechelen transit camp

Deported to Auschwitz on the last convoy from Belgium/forced Labor

Death March to Gross-Rosen concentration camp

Deportation to a sub-camp of Dachau

Escaped after a bombing/found shelter in a village

After liberation: his mother died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen and the father died in Theresienstadt

His younger brother was also killed in the Holocaust

1945 liberated by US forces/Return home and reunion with his sister

He was silent for more than 40 years/became active in 1987/one of the country’s foremost „passeurs de mémoire“ (memory keepers)

Paul Sobol died on November 17 2020 in Brussels.

Lest We Forget Geneva 01-27-2020