Biography

About Sophie Debora Friedberg

Sophie Debora Friedberg was the youngest child of Soroch Friedberg and Rebecca Knap. She was born in Rotterdam in 1914 but moved from Rotterdam to Antwerp as the Friedberg family settled in there in October 1924. Her father passed away in Antwerp in 1936 and was interred in the Jewish Cemetery in Putte. Her brothter Leo has survived the Shoah but not her brother Markus, his family and she self, as they were killed in Auschwitz.

Sophie Debora was not married. However she gave birth in Antwerp to a twin, named Denise and Willy, both born on 14 February 1937. She resided at that time at Marbaixstraat 21 and also both her children have been registered at that same address by the City of Antwerp.

It appeared from the Memorial of the Deportation of the Belgian Jews, that Sophie Debora Friedberg, together with her two children have been deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz with Convoy 8, which departed on 8 September 1942 and arrived in Auschwitz on 10 September, where Sopie Debora and her children have been killed on 11 September 1942. Also her mother was deported with that same convoy and also killed in Auschwitz on 11 September 1942.

City Archive of Rotterdam, family registration card of Soroch Friedberg; The Dossier of Foreigners of the City of Antwerp, no 110270, images 7-39 and the Memorial of the Deportation of the Belgian Jews.