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Edith Brandon was born September 24, 1921 to Heinrich and Meta Blau (née Samuel). She spent much of her childhood in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), where her father ran an import/export business. Edith’s parents first met in her mother’s family home in Minden, a German garrison town where her father was stationed near the end of WWI. Edith and her mother made frequent visits to Minden ...

Mayer Pasternack (1910-1999) was born Majer Pasternak on November 18, 1910 in Radom, Poland to Izek David Pasternak (d. 1943) and Ester Lea Pasternak (née Ledermann, d. 1943). Mayer had 8 siblings: Shayva Pasternak (later Sylvia Birenbaum, b. 1920), Chaya Pasternak (later Helen Broad), Moshe Pasternak (later Moshe Gutman), Ruben Pasternak, and 4 others whose names are currently unknown. After the September ...

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 ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller anderen Verbände, Einheiten und Dienststellen des Heeres auch, waren die Kriegstagebücher der Panzerarmeeoberkommandos (und ihrer Vorläufer) vom Mobilmachungstag an (26. 8. 1939) dem Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach der Beendigung ...

"Within the vast network of Nazi camps, Stutthof may be the least known beyond Poland. This book is the first scholarly publication in English to break the silence of Stutthof, where 120,000 people were interned and at least 65,000 perished. A Nazi Camp Near Danzig offers an overview of Stutthof's history. It also explores Danzig's significance in promoting the cult of German nationalism which led ...

Abraham Tolkowsky, born on 5 June 1838 in Russia, migrated from Bialystok, Poland, to Belgium in the 1880s and became a diamond merchant in Antwerp. He married Lifsche Moed and several of their nine children also became active in the diamond industry. The family business prospered from the 1890s with the founding of diamond polishing business A.M.I. Tolkowsky. Son Moise (Maurice) invented several techniques ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00122 at Kazerne Dossin

Catherine (Caby) Salomon was born on 10 July 1936 as the daughter of the Dutch marker Hyman (Henri) Salomon (b. 09/03/1905 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and his wife Ricke (Rieke) Vieyra (b. 27/02/1905 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands). The family lived in Berchem, Antwerp, and took in David Salomon (b. 06/12/1883 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands), father of Hyman Salomon. In May 1940, Hyman Salomon and ...

Handwerkjes gemaakt in gevangenschap door Elisabeth Geertruida (’Bep’) Valenkamp-Klaassen, en Cornelia Pier-Klaassen. Verzetsdeelnemers. -Boerenzakdoek, met in het middendeel een geborduurde afbeelding . Betreft een afbeelding van een vrouwpersoon, gekleed in een blouse, lange rok en klompen, die met haar handen in haar naar de zon staat te kijken. Op de zakdoek geborduurd de tekst: ‘ Voor ons gaat ...