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1894
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Born in Antwerp on 21 May, the third son of a diamond dealer from Hungary and an Austrian rabbi’s daughter.
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1896
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After his mother’s death, his father remarries and two more sons are born.
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1900-1920
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Deutsch and his brothers receive a religious Jewish education. Upon completion of their studies, the brothers work with their father in the diamond business.
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The 1920s
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Marries Esther Lauffer, daughter of the Ostende Jewish community’s president. Esther manages a fur salon, where Deutsch works as a salesman. He shifts to a secular lifestyle and devotes his life to art. An admirer of the well-known Belgian artist James Ensor, he joins the circle of his students. A friendship develops between the two.
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1928
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James Ensor paints Deutsch's portrait and signs it in Hebrew.
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1929
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Has his first one-man exhibition in the Galerie Louis Manteau, Brussels. Ensor writes the introduction to the catalogue.
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1930-1935
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Serves as President of the Jewish Community in Ostende.
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1933
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One-man exhibition, Galerie Louis Manteau, Brussels.
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1934
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One-man exhibition, Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels.
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1934
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Meets Fela Bronsztajn, winner of the Hadassah Women’s Organization beauty pageant. Carol paints her portrait and the two fall in love. Being 19 years his junior, her family is opposed to the relationship.
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1935-1936
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Because of his complicated personal relationships and financial problems, Deutsch travels to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) for one year. There, he paints large canvasses depicting the Holy Land and its landscapes.
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1937
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Illustrates the book "My Garden" by the Yiddish poet Yokheved Spingam-Schonfrucht.
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1938
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One-man exhibition of landscapes of Eretz Israel, Brekpot Gallery, Antwerp.
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1939
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Having divorced his first wife, he marries Fela.
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1940
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In January their only daughter, Ingrid, is born.
In May, Belgium is occupied by Nazi Germany and their home in Antwerp is destroyed in the bombardment.
Deutsch attempts to obtain entry visas to the United States, but fails.
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1941-1942
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Despite the war’s hardships, he illustrates a Bible, which he dedicates to his daughter on her second birthday. The 99 illustrations, depicting the chronicles and heroes of the Bible, are safeguarded in an ornamental wooden box, which he designed.
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1942-1943
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With the implementation of the “Final Solution” in Belgium, the family lives under the threat of deportation and desperately searches for hiding places in the countryside.
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1943
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On the night of 3 September, after being betrayed, he is arrested by the Gestapo. His wife is also arrested when she attempts to have him released. In September, their daughter Ingrid and her grandmother hide with a Catholic family in the town of Florenville, in southeast Belgium. Both survive the war.
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On 20 September, Deutsch and his wife are deported from the Mechelen transit camp to Auschwitz as prisoners 96B and 97B on transport 22-B.
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Carol was transferred to Sachsenhausen and from there to Buchenwald. He died of exhaustion in Buchenwald's subcamp, Ohrdruf, on December 20, 1944.
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