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Bella Swiatlowski was born in Forest, Brussels, on 26 April 1938 as the daughter of leather worker Berek Swiatlowski (b. 22/02/1905 in Plawno, Poland) and his wife Pesa Koronczyk (b. 14/01/1913 in Warsaw, Poland). Bella’s parents were arrested on 12 September 1942 at the Brussels-Midi train station. Bella was subsequently rescued by neighbours and placed in hiding in Anderlecht. Neither Berek Swiatlowski ...

Frajda Mantel was born in Praszka, Poland, on 1 May 1899. She became a seamstress. Around 1923, Frajda emigrated to Belgium where she religiously married leather worker Isaak Turczynski, (born in Zgierz, Poland, on 27 February 1897). The couple was religious and held Zionist beliefs. Frajda would give birth to two children: a daughter named Sonia Turczynski, who was born in Etterbeek on 5 April 1924, ...

The collection consists of: two diplomas issued to Lambert Robert by the Institut des Arts et Métiers [Institute for the Arts and Professions] in Brussels (1940 and 1942) ; a diploma of rescuer issued in 1980 to Robert Lambert and his parents Jules and Caroline Lambert by the Comité d'Hommage des Juifs de Belgique 1940-1945 [Honorary Committee of the Jews of Belgium 1940-1945] ; a photocopy of a diploma ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00597 at Kazerne Dossin

This collection contains one letter written by Lili Nahmias while detained at the Dossin barracks in May 1944 and sent to her parents at the Jewish elderly home Scheut in Anderlecht ; one note written by Lili Nahmias and thrown out of deportation transport XXV en route to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This collection consists of five postcards sent by Abram Hofnung while detained at the Dossin barracks in August 1942 to his wife Bajla Taszman in Brussels.

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

This collection contains: a digital copy of the Rosenblatt-Ginsberg family photo album, including photos of Hans Rosenblatt, his parents Adolf Rosenblatt and Lea Ginsberg, his uncle Samuel Rosenblatt and his adoptive parents David Dorn and Hanna alias Fanny Dorn taken before, during and after the war ; Samuel Rosenblatt’s American immigrant identification card from 1939 ; an album with handwritten ...

The Kopelman family originally resided in Russia. Marie Kopelman-Hancess had spent time in Belgium before 1940 and she was able to flee from Paris to Switzerland with her husband and daughter in 1941, where they lived out the rest of the war. Marie Kopelman-Hancess passed away in 1999. Marie's aunt, the widowed Perla Kopelman-Guidalevitch, had migrated from Sebastopol, Russia, to Belgium in 1920 together ...

Fonds consists of records relating to the pre- and post-war experience of Rebecca (née Buckman) Teitelbaum, Herman Teitelbaum and their family. Fonds is arranged into five series: Notebooks (1944-1945), Correspondence (1944-1945), Identification and related records (1938-1974), Photographs ([1941]-1947) and Objects [1944].

This collections consists of: two lists containing the names of Jewish and non-Jewish persons rescued by Florent Goffaux and Hélène Indekeu ; declarations regarding the rescue of André Paradis, Antoine Gosselin, Heinz Basch and Henri Drouin (with photos) ; a declaration regarding the death of Jean Lekime ; a statement signed by Salomon Muller ; an honorary certificate issued by the Union des Anciens ...

The collection consists of photographs depicting Cecile Rojer Jeruchim's experiences as a hidden child in Belgium during the Holocaust. Included are depictions of Cecile, her siblings Anny and Charles, and parents Abraham and Geshewa before World War II, the children's home of "Hirondelles," a meeting with Sister Clotilde in 1946, and post-war trips to London, England, and Rochefort, France.