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This collection contains digitised copies of 7 postcards and a letter sent by Elisabeth Thalheim to her mother Karola Kohn and her daughter Nelly Klein via Elisabeth’s Belgian, non-Jewish friend Lina Govaerts, while interned at the Dossin barracks from February until April 1943 ; a digital copy of an essay in English, written by Elisabeth Thalheim while taking an English course in preparation of her ...

17:38 Civil party Esther Majerowicz testifies regarding her arrival at Auschwitz, including having her head shaved and being tattooed; she gives specifics of her daily life in the camp, and details her subsequent transport to another camp, Kratzau, where she worked in an arms factory 17:52 President Cerdini asks Mrs. Majerowicz to give precision regarding the number of times and circumstances under ...

Georges Flaum was born on July 18, 1930, in Paris, France, to Charles (Chaim) and Therese (Tauba Hirszberg) Flaum. Charles was born in Rawa, Poland, and immigrated to France in December 1923. Therese was born in Czestochowa, Poland, and immigrated to France in January 1924. Charles was a tailor and Therese owned a shop. The couple married on April 5, 1927. In May 1940, Nazi Germany invaded France. ...

Rachel Hakker was born in Switzerland on 9 December 1942. Her family originated from Antwerp. Rachel’s father Simon Hakker was born in the Belgian port city in 1912, as the son of the Dutch couple Joseph Hakker and Rachel Simons. Like his father, Simon became a pastry chef. The Hakker family had a bakery at Provinciestraat in Antwerp. In 1934, grandfather Joseph Hakker won a baking competition by creating ...

16:07 The next witness, Mrs. Raymonde Guyon, presents herself to the court and is sworn in; the witness describes her participation in the dissemination of clandestine Resistance newspapers during the war, while in high school and then university; her fiancé at that time met law professors who were involved in the Resistance and they both became formally involved through these professors; she describes ...

The collection, spanning 1939-1992, consists of one memoir and a diary chiefly documenting life in France leading to and including war. The memoir of Renée de Monbrison (September 1939 to August 1944) is a bound copy typed in French. Entries describe time spent in Biarritz, an arrest in Hossegor, plans of fleeing to England, and her attempts to save her aunt, Loulou Warshawsky, from a camp near Tours. ...

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 ...

Dr. Ralph Bloch was the son of two physicians: Dr. Jacques Bloch M.D., a surgeon who spent most of that time in military service and Dr. Charlotte Bloch-Springer M.D. was a medical resident during the war. They resided in Zurich, Switzerland. In mid-1938 or early 1939 the Jewish Community of Zurich organized vacation programs for Jewish children from Southern Germany. Ingrid Billigheimer, born on September ...

Hans Adolf Bujakowski (later Henry Adolph Boyer, 1897-1964) was born on 13 June 1897 in Wrocław, Poland to Julius and Julie Bujakowski (1859-1942, née Kraemer, born in Hohenlohehütte). He had three brothers: Walter, Fritz (1901-1943), and Kurt (1902-1942). Hans studied medicine at the Universities of Jena and Berlin, and worked as a doctor in Berlin. He and his brothers all served in World War I, and ...

This collection contains: a photomontage of portraits of Jewish children deported from Belgium, used as a cover for the commemorative publication entitled "Mémorial de la déportation de Belgique de 25.124 Juifs et de 351 Tziganes" by Serge Klarsfeld an Maxime Steinberg ; the pages of addendum number 2 of the "Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France" [Memorial of the Deportation of Jews from ...