Tobias Schiff emigrated from Poland to Belgium in 1928, with his mother, Rywa Templer, and his older sister Bajla Basia (Lunia). Tobias' father, Mojzesz, had already been employed in Antwerp for several years as a diamond sorter. The Schiff family were living there when war broke out on 10 May 1940. Identified as a Jew, Lunia was arrested in July 1942 and deported via the Dossin Barracks. Tobias and ...