The Belgian Schindler Pt 3.

The remarkable true story of Henri de Broqueville and the Lachmans of Antwerp – or how a Belgian baron helped a Jewish family of eight evade the Nazis and escape the Holocaust.

In my previous posts, I told how, in 1942, a Belgian baron, Henri de Broqueville, helped eight members of the same Jewish family escape the Nazis and avoid deportation to the German death camps. In this, the final installment, I describe in more detail how Bella Lachman, the eldest of the four Lachman girls, met the baron and how he arranged for her parents and younger sisters to be sheltered in convents and safe houses in the Belgium countryside. Later, the baron furnished her brothers with false passports so they could escape to Switzerland. In 1975, De Broqueville was recognised for these and other righteous acts at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to victims of the Holocaust.