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Several files in this collection concern the activities of Rescue Children in Belgium. Box 13, folder 1 contains an undated list of adopted and non-adopted children in the home in “St. Marianberg” [Sint Mariaburg]. In box 15, folder 1 we note an undated report (including photographs) from the Comité central Israélite addressed to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany. In “Series ...

Anne Marie Feller (later Yellin) was the daughter of Hermann Feller and Frieda Happ Feller. She was born in Chemnitz, Germany in December 6, 1938. With her family, Anne Marie fled Germany to Belgium. In May 1940, Germany invaded Belgium and began instituting antisemitic decrees. When Germany began deportations, Anne Marie went into hiding with the help of Andree Guelen (Herscovici) from the Committee ...

Born on 16 October, 1903, in Chelm, Poland, Moszko Szyf grew up at Poeztowa/Potchtova 28, the cherished son of Mordka Josef Szyf and Ruchla Gitla Zygiel. Mordka studied in a Talmud school with rabbi Abraham Fink, while Ruchla kept open a shop. In Chelm there was a small synagogue, built in the years 1912-1914, on the corner of Kopernika and Krzywa Streets. Moszko had two older sisters Gaja (born in ...

Jacky Barkan was born as Jacques Charles Borzykowski in Brussels on 8 August 1938. His father Benjamin Blockerman (also Blacherman) had been born in Janów, Poland, on 26 November 1897. Benjamin became a tailor specialised in cutting parts for caps. On 3 May 1925 he married Jeta Chroscicka in Biała, PolandBenjamin’s brother Abraham Blacherman owned a small clothing workshop in Brussels, Belgium, from ...

Fernande Marie Louise De Smet was born in Geraardsbergen, Belgium, on 8 July 1899 as the daughter of cigar manufacturer Aimé De Smet and his wife Hélène Dhont. Fernande was a devout catholic. She never married and didn’t have children. In 1938 she co-founded an orphanage for girls, the ‘Instituut Zoete Troost der Bedrukten’ [Sweet Consolation for the Deprived], which was located at Voldersstraat in ...

This recording contains the exchange between 11 child survivors of the Holocaust during a zoom meeting held on 17 January 2021. All participants and their siblings were housed in Jewish and/or non-Jewish orphanages in Belgium during the war. These institutes included the Meisjeshuis and Good Engels (the Meisjeshuis department for babies and toddlers), the Jongenshuis and Pennsylvania Foundation orphanage, ...

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