PODCAST. Simon jumps from the train to Auschwitz at the age of eleven: “Mom puts me on the platform and holds me by the shoulders” | inland

The last witnessesOne morning in September 1942. The nocturnal silence in the streets of Brussels is abruptly interrupted by the umpteenth invasion of the Germans. There is a sign in the Chez Sally leather shop in Etterbeek: Jewish Company, closed by German order. The Gronowksi family, who own the shop, have already gone into hiding in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. Six months later, young Simon is having breakfast. The man at the door shouts “Gestapo”. He hears the compelling story in the podcast above.