""It's breakfast time. The bell rings, the three of us look at each other, my sister is in front of me. My mother is on my right. We were paralyzed. All our plans to escape through the back garden were in vain," Simon Gronowski recalled, describing the moment his family was taken by the Gestapo in March 1943."
""My legs were dangling in the air. Then she lowered me gently until my feet were on the edge of the carriage. My mother was holding me by my clothes when the train slowed down a bit. She pushed me out of the wagon," Gronowski recounted, detailing his escape from the train bound for Auschwitz."
""But she could not follow; the SS had stopped the train a little further and closed the wagon again," Gronowski said, reflecting on the tragic fate of his mother and sister, who were later murdered in Auschwitz."
At the Train World museum in Brussels, a Holocaust survivor and the son of a Nazi collaborator participated in an exhibition about Belgian railways during World War II. Simon Gronowski, a 94-year-old lawyer, recounted his harrowing experience of being taken by the Gestapo in 1943 and escaping from a train bound for Auschwitz with his mother's help. Tragically, his mother and sister were unable to escape and were murdered in the gas chambers. The event aimed to educate students about the Holocaust and its impact.
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