Ephraim and Jeanne (Lena) Saks
The parents of Ephraim and Lena Saks made their way from Ponedel in Lithuania to Dublin in 1914 via Leeds and Antwerp. They had three young children when they arrived, and the family remained in Ireland for the duration of the First World War.
Ephraim Saks was born in Dublin on 19th April 1915, and his sister, Lena (or Jeanne), on 2 February 1918.
Sometime after the end of the First World War, the family returned to Antwerp and a Belgian record shows the family living there together with the five children. Ephraim Saks and his sister, Lena (Jeanne) were amongst three of the Saks siblings born in Dublin.
Ephraim and Jeanne (Lena) Saks
Ephraim Saks
Ephraim was a furrier and single, living in France at the outbreak of the Second World War. He was arrested and deported from Drancy transit camp in Paris to Auschwitz on 24 August 1942, where he was murdered.
(This record mistakenly shows Ephraim having been born in Lublin but he was born in Dublin).
Jeanne (Janie or Lena) Saks
SAKS, Jeanne (Janie or Lena) was a salesperson and single. She was living in Antwerp during the war. She was captured and deported to Auschwitz where she was murdered in 1942/43. Testimony by Julia Apfel, a sister of Ephraim and Jeanne Saks, is on the Yad Vashem website. Three of Julia’s siblings, two of whom, Ephraim and Jeanne (Lena) were born in Dublin and hence were Irish citizens, were murdered in the Holocaust.
Jeanne (Lena) Saks Evacuation Notebook
Courtesty of Memorial de la Shoah
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