Dany Wajnman. Collection

Dany Wajnman was born on 17 January 1904 in Zloczew, Poland, as the daughter of Berek Wajnman and Eidel Schlamkowitz. Dany married Polish hairdresser Abraham Lipczyc, born in Zloczew on 16 June 1906. They emigrated to Belgium in 1928 and settled in Antwerp where their son Simon was born on 14 August 1929. At the outbreak of war, Dora, her husband and son lived at Rolwagenstraat 19. During the occupation of Belgium by Nazi-Germany, Dany and her husband Abraham joined the resistance. Abraham became a member of the armed partisans, while Dany joined the Solidarité network. Dany, who operated mostly in the Charleroi region where her family was in hiding, performed multiple tasks: she was a courier, she collected funds as well as food and clothes for people in hiding and for families of resistance fighters that were imprisoned or executed. Dany, her husband and her son all survived the war. After Liberation, Dany attended commemorations and patriotic ceremonies. She received recognition from the Belgian authorities for her role in the distribution of illegal pamphlets and clandestine newspapers.

On 4 March 2001, Augusta Brand, daughter-in-law of Dany Wajnman, kindly donated the items in this collection to the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, predecessor of Kazerne Dossin.

Augusta Brand, 2001