Bernard Aufrychter

born in Oberhausen on September 24, 1921 – died in Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp
Persecuted person
Photo: Bernard Aufrychter, Charleroi, 1938.

Bernard Aufrychter was born in Oberhausen, Germany, in 1921. In 1924, he and his originally Polish family moved to Charleroi in Belgium. After the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940, the Aufrychters fled to southern France. They were interned in a camp by the French government in the fall of 1940. Their attempt to obtain visas for the United States failed.
In the summer of 1941, Bernard’s brother Charles was able to leave the camp thanks to a Jewish aid organization, and moved to a children’s home. Bernard Aufrychter and his parents managed to escape from Rivesaltes internment camp. They stayed with friends, the Friedman family in Canet-en-Roussillon, for a while and then returned to Charleroi.
Bernard Aufrychter was deported from the Mechelen assembly camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp with his father on August 11, 1942. He never returned.

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