Pierre Arpels, barber, was a son of Izak Arpels and Regina Polak. He was born in 1917 but since 1921 he lived alone with his mother. His father has left his family and went to Antwerp, where he cohabited with a non-Jewish woman. He has been deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz with Convoy XXI from 19 July 1943 and presumably killed upon arrival there on 21 July 1943.
Al that time, Pierre lived tog…