Calixte Vandevelde was born on 18 October 1922 in Hoeleden, today part of Kortenaken, Belgium, as the son of Frans Vandevelde and Pelagie Sacréas. His parents, who were farmers, built a large family. Calixte had ten siblings. He attended a local primary school until the age of fourteen and then started working for the Blavier construction company in Oreye. When Nazi-Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May ...

Frajda Mantel was born in Praszka, Poland, on 1 May 1899. She became a seamstress. Around 1923, Frajda emigrated to Belgium where she religiously married leather worker Isaak Turczynski, (born in Zgierz, Poland, on 27 February 1897). The couple was religious and held Zionist beliefs. Frajda would give birth to two children: a daughter named Sonia Turczynski, who was born in Etterbeek on 5 April 1924, ...

On 15 January 1944, 353 Roma and Sinti were deported from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Auschwitz-Birkenau via Transport Z. Amongst the deportees were at least 27 members of the extended Lagrené family. Those deported also included Anton alias Antoine Lagrené who was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, on 13 January 1931, and his aunt Josephine Lagrené, who was born on 12 June 1929 ...

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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 ...

This collection consists of five postcards sent by Abram Hofnung while detained at the Dossin barracks in August 1942 to his wife Bajla Taszman in Brussels.

Line of German tanks on country road. Animated map traces German advance from Sedan to Abbéville in France, which was rapid despite what French newspapers predicted would be halted by fuel shortage. Fuel drums are loaded onto trucks in long line, unloaded from Junker planes and transported by Deutsche Reichsbahn trucks with trailers over bridge, past Wehrmacht signposts to Kraut, Mecheln, Krankensammelstelle ...

Abraham Charles Rozental was born on 19 June 1931 in Brussels as the son of the Polish merchant Heneck Rozental (born on 1 July 1876 in Radomsk, Poland) and his wife Pessa Choch (born on 13 June 1895 in Warsaw, Poland). Abraham’s parents had emigrated from Poland to Belgium in 1930, and had settled in Brussels. During the war, the Rozental-Choch family lived at Rue Emile Feron 67 in Saint-Gilles. Abraham’s ...

This collection contains : a studio portrait of Najm Wolf Rosan ; a photo of Najm Wolf Rosan, his children Max and Rachel Rosan, and a family friend riding a horse in a park.

Nizel alias Nathan Wejnberg (also Weinberg or Wajnberg) was born in Nowe Miasto, Poland, on 15 October 1885 as the son of Joseph Wejnberg and Kajla Frajdenraf. Nizel became a digger. During the First World War he served as a soldier in the Russian army. On 29 May 1919 Nizel married Laja Dymensztajn in Tomaszow, Poland. Laja had been born in Radoszyce, Poland, on 15 August 1898 as the daughter of Szlama ...

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 ...

This collection contains : a post-war photo of Arnold Adell and two friends among whom Roma musician Bilo Adel, 1950 ; a certificate granting reduced public transport fare to Arnold Adell, 1973.

This collection contains: a studio portrait of the deported Bernhard Goldberg reading a book ; a studio portrait of the deported Rosa Kardimann, married Goldberg ; a portrait of spouses Majer and Malka Goldberg-Goldberg.

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Willem Wouthuijsen was born in Amsterdam on 16 April 1888 and became a diamond cutter. In 1912 he married Ester Ricardo, born in Amsterdam on 8 August 1887. The couple had three children : Louis David, born on 9 December 1913 in Amsterdam (passed away on 11 July 1916), Siegfried Adolf, born on 17 August 1916 in Amsterdam, and Elisabeth, born on 13 April 1918 in Amsterdam. In 1931 the family migrated ...

Lejbus Wajnacht was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 25 October 1890. He became a leather worker and, on 20 March 1921, he married Sura Dwora Jamajka, who was born in Warsaw on 20 September 1891. The couple had two children. The eldest, a son named Israel (also Izrael or Izraël) alias Jean, was born in Warsaw on 21 November 1922. The family emigrated from Poland to Belgium in 1925 and settled in the Brussels ...

This collection contains post-war photocopies of the front of the wartime identity cards issued to Michael Spira and Sara Steinhaus.

This collection contains : a studio portrait of siblings Dora and Mozes Ettinger ; a studio portrait of siblings Dora and Mozes Ettinger, and their mother Cznana (Chana or Anna) Scheiner.

The 1961 membership file card system of the Union des Anciens Déportés Juifs de Belgique (KD_00144_A008991) is yet to be digitised and is therefore only accessible at the Kazerne Dossin reading room.

This collection contains: an identity card photograph of Joseph Seiderman, ca. 1935 ; an identity card photograph of David Fajerstejn, ca. 1938 ; a photograph of siblings David and Abraham Icek Fajerstejn walking down a street, 1942.

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Achim Frank was born in Leipzig in 1935, as the son of Johannes Gerhard Frank (Dresden, 1905) and Johanna Brandt. Johannes Frank had been a policeman in Dresden since 1925. He was added to the Polizeipräsidium in Leipzig in 1929 and to the Landessicherheitspolizei in 1931. He married Johanna Brandt in 1933. Achim would remain their only child. Johannes Frank joined the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) a year ...