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In 1931 Shomre Hadas, an orthodox Jewish community founded in Antwerp in 1920, merged with the Jewish Community of Antwerp, officially established in 1816. The name of the congregation then became the Jewish Community of Antwerp Shomre Hadas. The community’s main synagogue, inaugurated in 1893, was located at Bouwmeestersstraat in Antwerp, and was also known as the Dutch Synagogue, a reference to the ...

Max Schindler was born in Leipzig, Germany, on 5 July 1932 as the only child of Polish electrician Adolf alias Abraham Schindler (born on 28 January 1900 in Wojnicz, Poland) and his wife Jetty Kern (born on 16 July 1902 in Bohorodchany, then Poland, today Ukraine). Mid-August 1939 Max and his mother Jetty clandestinely fled to Belgium by train. In Antwerp they were reunited with Max’s father Abraham ...

This collection contains : a picture of non-deported Baruch (Bernhard) Neumann and his mother-in-law Maria Fridman ; pictures of deported family members of Baruch (Bernhard) Neumann and his wife Bajla Liba Wolfsztat, e.g. Baruch's brother Maurice (Moise) Neuman, his wife Enia Leszcz and their children Raymonde Sara and Adolf, Baruch's brother David Isaac Neumann, his wife Jenny (Jeanne) Lewkowitz and ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_01012 at Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Digital copy available as collection KD_00502 at Kazerne Dossin.

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Max Daniels was born in 1869, and his wife, Hedwig Johanna Ulmer, was born in 1877. The couple lived in Germany, where they raised their two children: Hilde Rosenstern-Daniels (born 1900) and Heinz Daniels (born 1902). In 1933, after the Nazi Party rose to power in Germany, their son Heinz emigrated to London. From that point on, communication between Heinz and his parents took place primarily through ...

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 ...

Frieda Beirnaert was born in 1926. As of September 1940, she attended the “school voor handel en administratie” [school of commerce and administration] at Durletstraat 8 in Antwerp, Belgium. Frieda befriended her Jewish classmate Rebecca Weinstein (born on 14 June 1926 in Antwerp, Belgium) during her first year at the school (1940-1941) and Jewish classmates Rosa Seewald (born on 17 December 1926 in ...

Leonid Edelstein was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on 4 January 1906 as the son of pharmacist Magnus Edelstein (b. 17/12/1869 in Vilna, Poland) and Rywa Kamuscher (b. 06/02/1884 in Vilna, Poland). Leonid emigrated via Berlin to Belgium on 20 October 1923 to study at the university of Liège. His brother Eugene (b. 07/12/1911 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia) arrived 11 days later via Italy. The two routes ...