Jewish Volunteers of Antwerp and Brussels
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Jewish Volunteers of Antwerp and Brussels
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Photo: Szerman-Korn (Collection Rudi Van Doorslaer).
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A group of Jewish volunteers of Antwerp and Brussels, most of them Polish and Hungarian, photographed in a studio in Murcia in 1937. They were part of the 13th Dabrowski Brigade, and some of them were later assigned to the newly established Jewish Botwin Company. Seated at the bottom, second from the left, is Captain Meier 'Maks' Stark, and next to him is Captain Alter Szerman. Standing in the second row, second from the left, is Emanuel 'Mundek' Mink. Like Szerman, he was one of the commanders of the Botwin Company. In the second row, third from the left, we recognize Joël Lubka, the older brother of Lea Lubka, who died in Spain. This Lea worked as a courier for resistance fighter Bert Van Hoorick during the occupation and died in a concentration camp. She was later featured in a beautiful piece of prose by Louis Paul Boon, My Little War ("Lea Lubka Returns").
