Biography

About Benedictus Zurel

Benedictus (Ben) Zurel was arrested in Brussels in the park Woluwe, together with his two years old daughter. His wife walked a bit farther away and was not arrested. Benedictus Zurel begged on his knees to release his child. She was then placed with a Belgian family, separate from her mother. After the war mother and child found eachother again, even though the child did not recognise her mother and only spoke French.
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Benedictus Zurel was deported on 14 September 1942 from Mechelen to Auschwitz.
S. Klarsfeld and M. Steinberg, Memoriaal van de deportatie der Joden uit België (Brussel 1982)

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