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Hartog Tertaas was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 5 July 1892 as the son of Mozes alias Maurice Tertaas and Rebecca Leeda. Hartog became a diamond cutter. On 15 May 1919, in Amsterdam, he married Clara Huijsman or Huysman who had been born on 10 February 1892 in the Dutch capital as the daughter of Machiel Huijsman and Jacomine Frankfort. As a young men Hartog had moved to Belgium, where he ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00503 at Kazerne Dossin.

This collection contains: wedding photos of Joseph Abramow and Dunia Menakier; photos of the Abramow-Menakier family on holiday at the beach and in a rural setting; photos of relatives including Jesel alias Lena Menakier and her daughters Adolphine alias Tania and Jenny Sapiro as well as the Creizberg-Menaker (Menakier) family; a photo album of an unidentified family, possibly the rescuers of Maurice ...

Renée Flaksbaum was born in Antwerp on 13 April 1926 as the daughter of Chaim Mordka (Max) Flaksbaum and Caroline Mandelbaum. Chaim had been born in Warsaw, Poland, on 18 May 1892. He became a travelling merchant and migrated to Antwerp via Germany in September 1920. His future wife and Renée’s mother Carolina Mandelbaum was born in Antwerp, Belgium, on 4 May 1899. Carolina’s parents were the well-to-do ...

This collection contains twelve photos, among which a wedding photo of Josef Klein and Lotte Silberstein, photos of Silberstein and Kantorowicz family members including one under the Eiffel tower, photos of the Klein sisters including one taken at the monastery in Sugny where they were hidden and a post-war photo of the Klein sisters taken upon arrival in Canada.

Regine alias Regina Beer was born on 5 November 1920 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the First World War her parents, the Belgian Jewish couple Henri Beer and Clara Josephine Pinkhof, had fled to the Dutch capital with their daughter Clarisse and son Sally Maurice. When Regine was 11 months old, the Beer family returned to Antwerp. There they experienced the beginning of the occupation in May ...

In this interview Guy Elie Francès talks about: the migration of the Frances family from Greece to Belgium via the Netherlands ; his childhood in Brussels ; daily life at the family home in the Jewish neighbourhood of Saint-Gilles, Brussels ; his family’s escape during the anti-Jewish raid on Brussels in the night of 3 on 4 September 1942 ; hiding in Liège ; family life after the Liberation.

In this interview Sauveur Eskenazi talks about: his youth in Marseille, France ; his family's arrest and their internment in the camps Royallieu near Compiègne and Drancy near Paris ; their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau ; his life as a forced labourer in Auschwitz, Warsaw and Dachau ; his liberation in Plzeň (Pilsen) by the Soviet army and his repatriation to France ; his post-war family life in ...

Marie-Jeanne Borghmans was born on 18 May 1937 as the only child of Jozef (Jef) Borghmans and Alice Deleu. As youngsters Jozef and Alice had been neighbours. After their wedding in 1934 the young couple first lived at Gemeentestraat in Kessel-Lo, near Leuven, and later at Albrecht Rodenbachstraat. Jozef Borghmans earned a living as a postman in the Leuven area (mainly the Kessel-Lo district). Upon ...