Fred J. Kader

Fred Jeruzalski Kader (born July 21, 1938, in Antwerp, Belgium) was a Belgian retired pediatric neurologist, Holocaust survivor and educator in the region of Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, Jacob Jeruzalski (1896–1942) and Basza-Ryfka Krysztal (1906–1942), were Jews from Poland who had migrated to Belgium. Kader was the sole Holocaust survivor of his family. His parents, two older brothers, his half-brother and half-sister were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Kader's younger sister had died prior to the deportations in Antwerp of natural causes. During the summer of 1942, Kader's father was sent from Antwerp to labor camps in Northern France, where he was forced to work for Organisation Todt. After the arrest of his mother in September 1942, Kader was brought to the children's home Meisjeshuis (Antwerp). On October 30, 1942, the German Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst arrested Kader and several other orphans in the children's home. He was taken to the Mechelen transit camp to be deported but was rescued by a 10-year-old boy named Marcel Chojnacki who, like Kader, was an orphaned Jewish child. Kader was then brought to the Jewish orphanage in Wezembeek-Ophem, where he survived the remainder of the war.


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