This collection contains: four post-war photos of the site of the Organisation Todt labour camp Dannes ; nine drawings of life at the Organisation Todt labour camp Dannes created by Salomon Buchenholz ; a document from 1946 regarding Salomon Buchenholz changing his surname to Buquenne ; a newspaper clipping published in Le Soir regarding the Organisation Todt labour camps Dannes and Camiers

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 359, Parts 1 and 3. Release date, 12/27/1944. Part 1 (13:00:40-13:03:00): According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Greenland Freed of Nazis" Nazi weather and radio stations in Greenland are located and destroyed by the US Coast Guard who dynamites its way through the Arctic ice fields to reach the enemy. Sleek German trawlers are destroyed or captured, and ...

Anna Erlich was born in Antwerp on 12 June 1928. Two years prior her parents, Szymon Michal Erlich (18 March 1899, Warsaw) and Fryda Liberman (20 April 1895, Pultusk) had moved from Poland to Belgium. Fryda’s brother immigrated to Antwerp before the First World War and had been able to get visa for his family, including his sister Fryda. In Antwerp, Szymon and Fryda raised two children : Anna and her ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00129 at Kazerne Dossin

Eliasz Pilzer (also Pilcer) was born in Dzialoszyce, Poland in 1864. He became a leather retailer and, in 1888, he married Hena Jama, who had been born in Dzialoszyce in 1866. In September 1925, Eliasz and Hena Pilzer-Jama emigrated to Belgium, with their daughter Salomea Sara Pilcer (born on 26 September 1905 in Bielany, Poland). Their sons Jacob Pilzer (born on 16 December 1890 in Przegorzaly, Poland), ...

This collection contains: a group photo of the members of Jewish sports club Maccabi Antwerp, posing in uniform at the occasion of the second anniversary of the club’s foundation, 1922 ; a studio portrait of the Stellman-Rubin family, ca. 1922 ; three telegrams exchanged via the British Red Cross between Herbert Stellman in London, United Kingdom, and his parents Heinrich alias Henri and Lea Stellman-Rubin ...

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Digital copy available as KD_00514 at Kazerne Dossin

Hartog Tertaas was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 5 July 1892 as the son of Mozes alias Maurice Tertaas and Rebecca Leeda. Hartog became a diamond cutter. On 15 May 1919, in Amsterdam, he married Clara Huijsman or Huysman who had been born on 10 February 1892 in the Dutch capital as the daughter of Machiel Huijsman and Jacomine Frankfort. As a young men Hartog had moved to Belgium, where he ...

This collection contains: the wedding booklet of Moise Josef alias Joske Gemeiner and Rosa Lewy, 1933 ; three fake ID cards issued to Rosa Lewy during the war under the false names Virginie Stevens (Antwerp), Coleta Avezals (Schoten) and Anna Opdebeeck (Antwerp) ; card for a beneficiary of the status of political prisoner issued to Salomon Gemeiner as beneficiary of his father Moise Josef Gemeiner, ...

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Majer Weinreb was born on 5 March 1894 in Kopki, Poland, as the son of Israel Weinreb and Ettel Rosenbuth. Majer became a diamond cutter. He married his cousin Rosa Weinreb, who was born in 1893 in Baranow, Poland, as the daughter of Mendel Weinreb and Gitel Hirsch. Majer and Rosa’s two children were also born in Baranow: Scheindla or Sally on 29 November 1921 and Jacob on 6 July 1924. In December ...

Jules alias Gyula Fleischer was born in Abaujszanto, Hungary, on 12 April 1912 as the son of Aladar Fleischer and Lenca König. On 5 June 1929, a few weeks after his seventeenth birthday, Jules travelled from Hungary to Belgium on a tourist visa, leaving behind his parents and three brothers in his hometown. All would perish during the Holocaust. Upon arrival in Antwerp Jules declared to the Belgian ...

David Schickler was born on 16 October 1906 in Grodek Jagiellonski, Poland (today Horodok, Ukraine), as the son of Simon Schickler and Chana Todt. He became a teacher and, in July 1930, he followed his parents to Belgium. David moved in with them at Marinisstraat 3 in Antwerp, but the family changed addresses frequently during the years following their arrival. On 10 September 1935, David married Chana ...

Georges Golbert-Zagrai was born in Orléans, France, on 24 November 1920 as the son of Israel alias Sroul Golbert-Zagrai (born in 1870 in Zhitomir, Russian empire) and Sura Foder Lazar (born in 1883 in Kansk, Russian empire). Georges’ parents had celebrated their wedding in Piotrkow, Russian empire, in 1903. Georges’ two eldest siblings were both born in Zhitomir: Beila in 1904 and Lea in 1906. Lea ...

This collection contains: a photocopy of a newspaper article on the death of Jozef Ber Helfgott in 1930 ; two M. Hohner brand harmonicas from the 1930s, played by Eliezer Helfgott and Israel alias Simon Helfgott ; a certificate of primary education awarded to Eliezer Helfgott, 1933 ; a pre-war photograph of Isaak and Bacia Helfgott-Faszczak, ca. 1938 ; identity certificate issued to Israel Helfgott ...

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Nizan Edelbaum, Private collection, Israel

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This collection contains: three pre-war photos of members of the Antwerp sports club Joodse Arbeiders Sportklub or JASK [English: Jewish Workers Sports Club (Antwerp) or YASK], including Philip Swaab and possibly a brother or future brother-in-law called Marcel ; a pre-war group photo of pupils at a school or colony, including Bertha and Eugenie alias Jennie Tygel ; two pre-war photos of Philip Schwaab ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00595 at Kazerne Dossin

This collection contains: a letter from Clementine Krijn (Kryn) in Antwerp to her brother and sister-in-law Alexander and Frances Krijn-Cohen in New York, announcing the death of their father Salomon Krijn (Kryn), his struggle during the last days of his life and the state of their mother Bertha Dreyfuss, 1941 ; the envelope with censorship markings containing the letter regarding the death of Salomon ...

Mozes Schenker was born in Belz, Poland, on 10 November 1896 as the son of Hersz Schenker and Have Fischer. On 28 February 1925, Mozes travelled to Lemberg to collect his passport at the local police prefecture. Two months later he visited Czechoslovakia. The Belgian delegation in Prague provided him with a visa valid for 15 days. Upon Mozes’ arrival in Brussels on 5 May 1925, he stated he was a travelling ...

Moses Pinkas alias Maurice Apsel was born in Dolynyany, Poland (today Ukraine), on 11 November 1909 as the son of Markus and Pesie Apsel. In September 1927 Moses obtained the necessary papers to emigrate to Belgium where he was to be employed as a diamond clover by the diamond trading company ‘Apsel, Dattner & Mire’. Moses arrived in Antwerp on 8 May 1928 and temporarily lived at Justitiestraat 22, ...