At the concentration camp in Gurs

Title: At the concentration camp in Gurs
Rights: Photo: Goth, Paris Collection Rudi Van Doorslaer).
Description: A unique photo taken in 1939 in the Gurs concentration camp in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. In this group of Jewish Brigadists of Belgium, we recognize Mundek Mink at the top left and Alter Szerman as the second from the right at the top. After the dissolution of the Brigades in October 1938, they were unable to return to Belgium and were later deported by the French Vichy regime to Djelfa in the Algerian desert. This "punishment" ultimately saved them from deportation to Auschwitz, as they were liberated there by the Allies in 1943.