The collection contains seven photos of the Dreyfuss-Isenberg family and a prayer card commemorating rescuer Yvonne Veys as well as seven letters and two cards. Five letters and perhaps the two cards were sent by the Dreyfuss family, after they had moved to Leuven, to their former next-door neighbours, the Perck family. Two other letters were sent by the Dreyfuss family, while detained at the Dossin ...

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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 ...

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Anna Teitelbaum was born in Antwerp on 5 December 1931 as the youngest of four children of the Jewish diamond merchant Chaim Teitelbaum and his catholic wife Victorina De Ridder. Anna attended classes at a local primary school (Stedelijk Onderwijsgesticht voor meisjes nr. 1) at Lange Leemstraat, where she had several Jewish classmates. When Nazi-Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940, the Teitelbaum ...

Gabriel Bauden was born in Pabianice, Poland, on 23 July 1911 as the son of Abraham Bauden and Kaila Stein. In 1928, after the death of his father, his mother Kaila and sister Chaja migrated from Poland to Belgium. Gabriel followed his family in 1929. Without a valid work permit he started working illegally as a clerk at Hotel Spira in Knokke at the Belgian seaside. In April 1932, the Belgian immigration ...

Taube alias Tauba Nussbaum, commonly known as Thérèse, was born in Siedlec, Poland, on 30 January 1896 as the daughter of Isaac Nussbaum and Esther Rosenman. Tauba’s family emigrated from Russia to Belgium in 1906, and first lived at Vandenpeereboomstraat 34 in Borgerhout, but then changed addresses frequently before fleeing to London, the United Kingdom, upon the outbreak the First World War. Upon ...

Mordechai (Marcel) Kaufman was born in Antwerp on 4 November 1936, his sister Chaya (Charlotte) on 18 March 1938. They were the children of Samuel Kaufman (b. 16/12/1905 in Korczyna, Poland) and Metel Leia (Mathilde) Rottenberg (b. 04/02/1909 in Bobowa, Poland). Samuel Kaufman had emigrated from Poland to Belgium in November 1928. He joined his father Abraham Kaufman in Antwerp to learn the profession ...

This collection contains a Polish passport issued to Marjem Wyszegrodzka in 1937. Marjem Wyszegrodzka, born on 20 August 1908 in Łęczyca, Poland, moved to Belgium and married Leibisch Goldfischer. She had been in Belgium since 22 August 1927, working at a clothing shop in Brussels. On 7 October 1942, both Marjem and Leibisch were registered at the Dossin Barracks for deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

This collection contains : a pre-war portrait of the deported Hena Jama and a pre-war portrait of her deported son Jules Pilzer (also Pilcer).

Vigdor Getsel (Victor) Hollander was born in Neu-Sandez, Austro-Hungarian empire, now Nowy Sacz in Poland, on 20 April 1887. He became a diamond trader and, in November 1909, emigrated to Belgium, where he settled in Antwerp. On 1st December 1909, he married Terez Eckstein, born in Moskolizi, Hungary, on 14 September 1888. Their oldest son, Mauritz Leo Hollander, was born in Antwerp on 16 December ...

Mozes Isaak Sand was born in Jaworów, Poland, on 2 May 1923 as the son of Abraham Sand (b. 18/02/1894 in Jaworów, Poland) and Regina Flichtenfeld (b. 07/09/1895 in Jaworów, Poland). Mozes Isaak Sand had an older sister, Lea Sand, who was born in Jaworów, Poland, on 15 November 1921. In October 1927, father Abraham Sand made his way to Belgium via Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His wife and both children followed ...

Georgius Simon alias Georges Censer was born in Borgerhout, Belgium, on 13 August 1909 as the son of Polish diamond merchant Simche alias Simon Censer and his wife Paulina Mayer who had settled in Belgium in 1903 and 1906 respectively. During the First World War, Georges and his parents fled to Scheveningen in the Netherlands. Georges’ younger brother Samuel Censer was born in The Hague, the Netherlands, ...

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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, ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00597 at Kazerne Dossin

Abraham Herschel Schonberg was born in Oświęcim, Poland, on 21 July 1881 as the son of Salomon Schonberg and Rachel Florenz. As a young man, he moved to Krakow where he became a diamond broker. On 17 December 1905 Abraham Schonberg married Victoria Ubersfeld, born in Cracow, Poland, in 1880, as the daughter of Salomon Ubersfeld and Ester Indler. Abraham and Victoria’s first child, a son named Alexander, ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00091 at Kazerne Dossin

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Liste sommaire ; liste réalisée par B. Dickschen pour les boîtes dites ‘vertes’.

Salomon alias Edmond van Dam was born on 22 July 1883 in Antwerp, Belgium, as one of eight children of the Dutch-Jewish couple Hijman Isaac van Dam and Sara Andriessen. Salomon studied to become a dentist and obtained his diploma in 1901. On 24 May 1933, Salomon van Dam married the non-Jewish Yvonne Flamme, who had been born in Woluwé-Saint-Lambert, Belgium, on 2 October 1904. The couple first lived ...