Nathan Chorowicz documents

Natan Caron was born Noech (Natan) Chorowicz on 10 March 1923, in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Abraham and Ryfka (Czakow) Chorowicz. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Abraham had found work as a cabinet maker, and later owned a beverage factory. Following the German invasion of Belgium in 1940, the family tried to escape to France but were turned back to Belgium, and Natan and his father were subsequently arrested and in June 1942 were sent to work as forced laborers at Dannes-Carniers (near Calais, France) before being sent to the transit camp at Malines (Mechelen) in October of that year, and deported to Auschwitz a few weeks later. Abraham and Natan were separated at Auschwitz, with Natan being sent to Jawischowicz, where he was a forced laborer until early 1945, when the prisoners in that camp were evacuated to Gleiwitz (Gliwice), and onward to Buchenwald. Natan was a forced laborer at that camp and a succession of sub-camps, until he was liberated in April 1945 and repatriated to Belgium, where his father, who had been liberated from Mauthausen, soon joined him. Natan's mother, Ryfka, and sister, Marie, had been sent to Malines in 1943 and subsequently deported to Auschwitz, where they were killed. Natan lived with and supported his father, and also met Estera, another Holocaust survivor from Poland, who he married in 1947, and with whom he had a son in 1951. In 1958, Natan and Estera, and their son, Michael, immigrated to the United States, settling in Orange, California, where he worked as a tailor, and where the family changed their last name to Caron. Natan Caron died on 15 April 2012.