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Andrée Geulen was born in Brussels in 1921. She became a teacher. When in late 1942 more and more Jewish pupils didn’t show up for school anymore, she became aware of their situation and she joined the Jewish Defense Committee (JDC or Comité de Défense des Juifs). Andrée became a courier for the resistance network which hid between 3,000 and 4,000 Jewish children and adults all over Belgium. Andrée ...

Pictures of the artist Nat Neujean while sculpting ; some of Nat Neujean's early works of art (statues and bronze sculptures); pictures of family members and friends of Nat Neujean, some of whom were members of the armed resistance.

This collection contains four pictures portraying members of the Kosterich family, including: Max Kosterich, Hedwig Goldschmidt, Walter Joseph Kosterich, Manfred Kosterich, Oskar Kosterich and Hans Kosterich.

Digital copy available as collection KD_00083 at Kazerne Dossin

This collection consists of two postcards sent by Cipa Wajncwajg to her husband Moszek Klainer and their children Bernard and Annie, while interned at the Dossin barracks in September 1942.

Mendel Wiznitzer was born on 14 May 1885 in Zabolotiv, Ukraine. He was the son of Feige Wiznitzer, born in Vascouti in Romania and died in Zablotiv in 1898. On his way to the west of Europe, he stayed in Vienna. During the First World War, he served as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army. There he married Rachela Feiger on 10 January 1920. She was born in October 1887 in Pistyn, Ukraine. Mendel ...

Tobias Schiff emigrated from Poland to Belgium in 1928, with his mother, Rywa Templer, and his older sister Bajla Basia (Lunia). Tobias' father, Mojzesz, had already been employed in Antwerp for several years as a diamond sorter. The Schiff family were living there when war broke out on 10 May 1940. Identified as a Jew, Lunia was arrested in July 1942 and deported via the Dossin Barracks. Tobias and ...

This item is a violin used by an unidentified prisoner to play for the guards at the Dora concentration camp and taken to Belgium by camp survivor Maurice Flam in 1945.

Moszek Morgen was born in Kielce, Poland, in 1912. He became a mechanic, later a jeweler, and in 1928 he emigrated to Lüttich (Liège/Luik), Belgium, to work in his uncle’s bike shop. In the 1930s Moszek moved to Anderlecht, where he married Suzanne Duchesne, a non-Jewish Belgian artist. Their son Serge Morgen was born in 1939. On 9 May 1942, Moszek Morgen was arrested at a café by the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst ...

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 ...