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Helene Mashan Cohn (1883-1971) was born in Königs-Wusterhausen Germany. She married Eugen Cohn in Berlin in 1910, and their son Gunter was born in Berlin in 1911. Gunter immigrated to Cuba in early 1939. His parents tried to join them aboard the MS St. Louis in May 1939, but the ship was returned to Europe. The Cohns disembarked in France, but continued to pursue immigration to Cuba to rejoin their ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

The Mirka Knaster collection consists of forty photographs of the Knaster family (Baruch, Cyla, and Mirka Knaster) in displaced persons camps, including Santa Caterina, and Bari, Italy. The Jewish marriage certificate (Ketubah) for Cyla and Baruch Knaster.

The Anita Sockol collection consists of two postcards and an autograph album that belonged to Anita Plachte (later Sockol), from mid-1930s, brought out of Nazi-occupied Europe.

The collection includes a journal, on loose pages, transcribed and recorded by Alexander Muller in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany. The entries include statements and testimony from other survivors.

This collection contains a pre-war photo of the complete De Metz family, a photo of middle son Henri De Metz wearing the yellow badge in 1942 and a request for food and clothes sent by the De Metz family members detained at the Dossin barracks to their son and brother Benjamin De Metz in Antwerp.

Sucher Rubin (later Sol Rubin, 1922-2017) was born on 14 February 1922 in Radom, Poland to Jacob and Chaja (née Wolanowska) Rubin. He had one brother Gedalja. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Sucher was sent to the Dęblin ghetto. He was sent to a forced-work camp in Dęblin until October 1942 when he was transferred to the Częstochowa ghetto. In July 1944 he was deported to the ...

Alfred Kuchler was born in Berlin, Germany, on 14 September 1919 as the son of Josef Kuchler and Golda Süss (sometimes Grün). Alfred became a furniture maker. On 15 July 1939, he clandestinely crossed the German-Belgian border near Herbesthal and reported with the Belgian immigration authorities to request a Belgian residence permit. It was Alfred’s intention to obtain a visa for France and to join ...

Joseph Geiger was born in Storozhynets, Romania, on 13 January 1898. He became a master-tailor. In 1931 he married Juliana Kohn, born in Svaty Mikulas, Czechoslovakia, on 28 August 1907. In July 1938 the couple fled from Austria to Belgium, taking their daughter Gerda Geiger, born in Vienna on 2 August 1932, with them. Although they tried to leave for the United States, the family was not able to flee ...

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, ...