Rebecca Vos-Nabarro

Rachel Nabarro, born in Amsterdam on 14 February 1914 as a daughter of Isaac Nabarro and Espinosa, married Emilius Vos, who usually was called Emile, on 8 September 1911 in Borgerhout. He was a son of Andries Vos and Aaltje Bonn. The couple had three children, namely Isaac, Andries and Herman. At the end of the 1930-s, the Vos family lived at Sterrenborgstraat 8 in Borgerhout.

At the end of August…

Rebecca Nabarro was deported on 4 September 1942 together with her husband and children from Mechelen to Auschwitz.
S. Klarsfeld and M. Steinberg, Memoriaal van de deportatie der Joden uit België (Brussel 1982)

This transport includes 1000 persons, among them 344 children. They have never been so numerous before. It indicates a new big raid, the second of the “final solution”, once again in Antwerp with the cooperation of the Belgian police, during the night of 28 to 29 August. The list of the convoy, that was started on the eve of the raid was already complete on 29 August, because of the arrests during…

Het gezin Vos-Nabarro wordt in Anwerpen tijdens de tweede grote nachtelijke razzia opgepakt en op 29 augustus 1942 bij de Kazerne Dossin afgeleverd. Met transport VII wordt het gezin op 1 september 1942 naar Auschwitz gedeporteerd. Emilius Vos wordt met een aantal lotgenoten gedwongen onderweg in Kosel uit te stappen en moet vrouw en kinderen achterlaten om in de kampen van Opper-Silezië dwangarbe…