Regine alias Regina Beer was born on 5 November 1920 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the First World War her parents, the Belgian Jewish couple Henri Beer and Clara Josephine Pinkhof, had fled to the Dutch capital with their daughter Clarisse and son Sally Maurice. When Regine was 11 months old, the Beer family returned to Antwerp. There they experienced the beginning of the occupation in May ...

Katalog der Konzentrationslager-Dokumente, die sich bei dem International Tracing Service Allied High Commission for Germany befinden. Hrsg. v. d. Allied High Commission for Germany (HIOG), Bad Arolsen 1951. Catalogue of Concentration Camp Records held by the International Tracing Service, ed. Allied High Commission for Germany, Bad Arolsen 1951.

Aron Lejzer Goldberg was born on 26 February 1904 in Prostyn, Poland. He became a tailor. In August 1924, Aron emigrated to Belgium where he settled in Anderlecht. On 27 July 1929 he married the Polish seamstress Chana Laja Kaufman, who had been born in Zyrardow, Poland, on 1 February 1906, and who had emigrated to Belgium in 1927. Their son Abraham (Albert) had been born in Brussels on 13 February ...