Eugen Pinto was the son of Bernard Pinto. Eugen probably fled Germany because of the Nazi regime. On 5 September 1938, he registered with the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Waalwijk. He was a manufacturer of braces. On 31 August 1942, Eugen was placed on a transport to Poland with five other Jews from Waalwijk. The train stopped at Koźle (Poland), where all the Jewish men between the ages of fifteen and fifty had to get off. This included five Waalwijkers, one of whom survived. That survivor has described what happened next: ‘[T]hat night [we arrived] at the first camp in Upper Silesia, Niederkirch. The other young men from Waalwijk were with me. They stayed there almost ten days and then were transferred to another camp. After that, I never saw them or heard from them again.’ Eugen ended up in Fürstengrube, an Aussenkommando associated with Auschwitz. There he was forced to work in a coal mine near Lawki (Poland).
Jack Didden, ‘De laatste Joden in Waalwijk’, in: M. van Loon e.a. (red.), Geschiedenis van de joden in Waalwijk 1690-1945 (Waalwijk, 1990) 80-109
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