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Testimony of Germaine Sephiha on the role played by the Turkish government and the Turkish consul regarding the persecution of the Jews in Belgium, and on the exchange of Turkish detainees at Ravensbrück for German prisoners of war ; two booklets containing wartime and postwar song lyrics and poems related to the Second World War and life in concentration camps ; two postwar Turkish passports of Esther ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Jacob Landau was born in Jadachy, Poland, in 1898 and became a diamond trader. In 1922 he married Leah Blitzer, whom was born in Zareby, Poland, in 1898. Leah gave birth to two sons before the family migrated : David, born in 1923, and Noé, born in 1924. Jacob Landau arrived in Belgium in December 1924. His wife and sons followed in February 1926. The Landau-Blitzer family settled in Borgerhout, Antwerp, ...

This collection contains : 8 photos of Regina Szpiro and her school friend Victoire Ponjaert, taken during school outings or at a swimming pond, and 1 photo of of Regina Szpiro’s deceased mother Golda Awerbuch ; 8 letters from Regina Szpiro, her youngest sister Lea Szpiro and family member Femmy Pels (?) to Victoire Ponjaert, recounting daily life in Brussels.

The sketchbook entitled 'Lagergedichte von J.S. in KLB' contains small drawings and rhymes created by Roma inmate Johann (Mongo) Stojka. The booklet’s contents depict everyday life at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The topics covered include the procedure upon arrival of new prisoners, food, labour performed by the prisoners, the role of the Blockälteste and members of the Lagerschutz in the camp, ...

Hersch Mozes Cohen was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 14 June 1905 as the son of Mozes Cohen and Hilletje Pollak. Hersch was raised in the port city, but when, in 1914, the First World War broke out his family fled to the Netherlands, the country of birth of both Hersch’s parents. In June 1919 the Cohens returned to Antwerp and settled at Grammestraat 33. However, Hersch again lived in Amsterdam from ...

Peisach alias Paul Bucholz was born on 8 February 1932 in Etterbeek, Brussels, the son of Mojsze Hast (born on 16 February 1900 in Warsaw, Poland) and Basze Laie Bucholz (born on 3 August 1907 in Warsaw, Poland). Mojsze migrated to Belgium in 1926 and became a kosher cook working on the ships of the Red Star Line. Here he met the seamstress Basze Laie Bucholz who had arrived in Belgium in 1922 with ...

This collection contains 2,913 index cards which refer to the Möbelaktion (Räumung), the spoliation of Jewish homes, in Antwerp. Each index card contains the address of a plundered home, the name of the Jewish resident, the date of the clearance and a file number referring to a more comprehensive file, which no longer exists today.

Elias Stainfeld was born on 11 May 1907 in Antwerp, Belgium, as the son of diamond broker Mordka Stainfeld (b. 12/04/1877 in Warsaw, Poland) and his wife Chaja Hillel (b. 01/09/1883 in Krakow, Poland). Elias had two younger sisters : Sara (b. 06/10/1908 in Antwerp, Belgium), who probably died as a child, and Charlotte (b. 06/01/1912 in Antwerp, Belgium). In the 1920s, the Stainfeld family obtained ...

This collection contains : two copies of a letter from 1943 written by the Comité de la Colonie Turque en Belgique [Committee of the Turkish Community in Belgium] in which the committee asks its more affluent members for donations to support its destitute members ; a file containing nine documents with regards to the activities of the Comité de la Colonie Turque en Belgique in 1943, including reports ...