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Jules alias Gyula Fleischer was born in Abaujszanto, Hungary, on 12 April 1912 as the son of Aladar Fleischer and Lenca König. On 5 June 1929, a few weeks after his seventeenth birthday, Jules travelled from Hungary to Belgium on a tourist visa, leaving behind his parents and three brothers in his hometown. All would perish during the Holocaust. Upon arrival in Antwerp Jules declared to the Belgian ...

In the early afternoon of 18 January 1941 a train carried 261 Jewish men, women and children from Antwerp to Limburg. This was neither the first nor the last such convoy to leave from the Antwerp south train station. In total, between 21 December 1940 and 12 February 1941, 3293 foreigners (mainly Jews) from Antwerp were relocated to Limburg by the Nazis. Nine transports took them to 35 different municipalities. ...

Marion Finkels was born in 1927 in Hamburg, Germany, as the daughter of John Finkels (officially Samuel Finkels) and Rose Herzog (officially Rachel Herzog). John’s parents had emigrated from Poland to Germany and owned a small department store in Altona, a suburb of Hamburg. After Marion’s grandfather passed away, John took over the department store which was in fact run by Rose. In 1933 the family ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00974 at Kazerne Dossin.

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 ...

Nizel alias Nathan Wejnberg (also Weinberg or Wajnberg) was born in Nowe Miasto, Poland, on 15 October 1885 as the son of Joseph Wejnberg and Kajla Frajdenraf. Nizel became a digger. During the First World War he served as a soldier in the Russian army. On 29 May 1919 Nizel married Laja Dymensztajn in Tomaszow, Poland. Laja had been born in Radoszyce, Poland, on 15 August 1898 as the daughter of Szlama ...

Josek alias Joseph Kichka was born in Skierniewice, Poland, on 15 March 1900. He held Polish nationality and became a tailor. During the First World War he was held at a detention camp for civilian prisoners in Havelberg, Germany. In November 1918, Josek clandestinely fled from Germany to Belgium. When he was tracked down by the immigration authorities in Brussels in February 1919, Josek was transferred ...

On 15 July 1965 the non-profit organisation “Mémorial national aux Martyrs juifs de Belgique” was officially founded. Its aim was the creation of a monument dedicated to all Jews deported from Belgium, an idea which had been launched in 1961. Among its founders were Maurice Pioro and David “Dov” Liebermann. Jean Bloch became the first president. On 19 April 1970 the national memorial for deported Jews ...