Remembrance Memorial Isabelle Fischlowitz

Commemorative plaque in honor of war victim Isabelle Fischlowitz.
Marble inscription on the wall of her former house;
"HIER MEEGENOMEN
EN WEGGEVOERD
DOOR DE DUITSERS
IN HET JAAR 1941
ISABELLE FISCHLOWITZ"

"Captured here
and taken away
by the Germans
in the year 1941
Isabelle Fischlowitz"

This plate was applied on Sunday, September 9th 1951. The inscription is dated the year 1941, but this proved incorrect, the correct year is 1944.

This unmarried Jewish piano teacher was born in Geraardsbergen on March 7, 1891, the daughter of parents with Polish nationality. During the occupation there was one, possibly two, German soldiers stayed in her home. These soldiers made to her attention that she was not obliged to provide as a single woman, military accommodation. With that she went to the Kommandatur on the Stationsplein to settle this straight. The German soldier was immediately pulled away from the home. The next day, somewhere in May 1944, a German Gestapo officer accompanied by a German truck drove into the street and stopped at the home of Isabelle Fischlowitz. She was arrested and pushed onto the truck and brought to the Dossinkazerne in Mechelen. She was deported as "passenger" number 179 of the 26th convoy (XXVI. Transport) to Auschwitz. This convoy departed on July 31, 1944 with 563 people of whom 207 were gassed immediately upon arrival.

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Source

• Text: Tim De Vleeschouwer
• Photos: Tim De Vleeschouwer (1, 2), Rijksarchief België – Dossier Vreemdelingenpolitie (3)