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Hanna Brigitta alias Brigitte Jacobsberg was born in Aachen, Germany, on 26 April 1925 as the daughter of cloth manufacturer Ernst Jacobsberg (born on 26 January 1879 in Aachen, Germany) and his wife Margarete Dannenbaum (born on 27 November 1889 in Krefeld, Germany). Brigitte had an older sister named Dorothée, born in 1913, and an older brother named Franz, born in 1923. Franz was sent off to boarding ...

Judy Kreith, a professional dance educator and choreographer, had always been inspired by the story of her mother Marion Finkels-Kreith. Marion and her family fled Belgium in 1941 and survived the war in Havana, Cuba, as members of the local diamond workers refugee community. In 2013 Judy set out to record her mother’s story. She contacted professional documentary filmmaker Robin Truesdale to conduct ...

Markus Singer was born in Jaworow, Poland, on 11 February 1887 as the son of Emanuel Singer and Czarne Mesuse. Both his parents passed away before the war. Markus became the director of the Universum Film AG (UFA), the most important pre-war film studio in Germany. On 8 December 1921 Markus married the Christian woman Hilda Ofterdinger (born on 17 September 1897 in Vienna, Austria). The couple had ...

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 ...

This collection contains four biscuit boxes with prints referring to "Antwerpse handjes", the cookie invented by Joseph Hakker, grandfather of the donor ; seven baking tins used in the Hakker bakery, including a mould to cut "Antwerpse handjes" ; three tablecloths from Phylis Wach's trousseau ; three pieces of table silver owned by Phylis's father Wolf Wach ; documents including adds published by the ...

Fernande Marie Louise De Smet was born in Geraardsbergen, Belgium, on 8 July 1899 as the daughter of cigar manufacturer Aimé De Smet and his wife Hélène Dhont. Fernande was a devout catholic. She never married and didn’t have children. In 1938 she co-founded an orphanage for girls, the ‘Instituut Zoete Troost der Bedrukten’ [Sweet Consolation for the Deprived], which was located at Voldersstraat in ...

Jacky Barkan was born as Jacques Charles Borzykowski in Brussels on 8 August 1938. His father Benjamin Blockerman (also Blacherman) had been born in Janów, Poland, on 26 November 1897. Benjamin became a tailor specialised in cutting parts for caps. On 3 May 1925 he married Jeta Chroscicka in Biała, PolandBenjamin’s brother Abraham Blacherman owned a small clothing workshop in Brussels, Belgium, from ...

This collection contains four photos of deported members of the Feldinger family, including a photo of the marriage of Moses Chaim Katz and Golda Dychtwald in 1936.

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Digital copy available as collection KD_00129 at Kazerne Dossin