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Language of Description: English
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Country: Belgium

  1. Brunner-Hollander family. Collection

    This collection contains: pre-war photos of Menasche alias Maximilian Brunner, his wife Esther Hollander, their children Dora and Henri Brunner, and the extended Brunner family ; wartime photos of the Brunner family while in hiding at Genval with the Balzat family ; a photo of Menasche alias Maximilian Brunner being reunited with his wife Esther Hollander and their son Henri at the Royal Circus in Brussels in 1945 ; war-time Red Cross membership card and ID card of Rosa Brunner ; advertisement stamp of Pension Brunner located in Heide ; Menasche alias Maximilian Brunner's Hungarian military...

  2. Bureau des Domaines de Charleroi. Office des Séquestres.

    Ce fonds contient notamment des listes d’étrangers des communes de la région de Charleroi, parmi lesquels des apatrides mentionnés comme Juifs. Il s’agit de listes des personnes inscrites aux registres des étrangers de la commune, ayant fait l’objet d’enquêtes, communiquées par le commissaire de police au receveur de l’enregistrement et des domaines, remplissant la mission confiée à l’Office des séquestres, en application de l’article 4 de l’arrêté-loi du 23 août 1944. Ces listes font mention de l’identité de la personne, de son domicile, de sa nationalité, de sa profession et du résultat d...

  3. Calixte Vandevelde. Collection

    This collection contains: two photos of Calixte Vandevelde ; a number of items recuperated from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) in the weeks following Liberation in September 1944, including two dice, a purse belonging to Jewish secretary Benita Hirschfeld, an empty parcel box imprinted “Brunita margarine”, a children’s book entitled “De speeldoos van Langelot”, a shoe with wooden sole and 37 tin buttons fabricated in the camp workshops, the pocket watch of the deported Leon Brener with a piece of cloth with a handwritten text in Yiddish tucked inside, the necklace with pendant...

  4. CCIB.

    Ce fonds contient de la correspondance; des procès-verbaux des réunions du CCIB; des rapports d’exercices annuels; des dossiers concernant le recrutement des rabbins, leur installation; des rapports d’oeuvres sociales et de bienfaisance (Villa Johanna, Société des Secours Efficaces, Mères Israélites, Orphelinat de Hirsch, Comité des Apprentis, Œuvre Centrale Israélite de Secours, Keren Kayemeth Leisrael, Mutuelle Israélite, Caisse Consistoriale de Bienfaisance, Maison de Retraite, Société israélite d’assistance antituberculeuse de l’agglomération bruxelloise, Cuisine Populaire Juive, Sociét...

  5. Celnik-Miliband family. Collection

    This collection contains six photos of Celnik-Miliband family members, including portraits of Jacques Celnik, his wife Frania Miliband and a group photo of the couple with relatives.

  6. Chaim (Max) Flaksbaum. Collection

    This collection contains a card to Tony Samuel's great uncle, Harry Karet (1906-1999), sent by Chaim (Max) Flaksbaum. The card conveys Jewish New Year's greetings. "I am blessing you and your family with G'mar Chatimah Tovah (literal translation: 'a good final sealing') - said at Yom Kippur, referring to the Book of Life) May God give you a year of life, blessing and success, wealth and honor," the message (in Hebrew) says. In 1938, 14 September marked the Jewish New Year. However, Yom Kippur occurred on 5 October. This card's message may be a little late in some ways, but there may be good...

  7. Chancellerie du Premier Ministre. Cabinet du Premier Ministre et Secrétariat du Conseil des ministres.

    Ce fonds contient des dossiers du Cabinet du Premier Ministre, de diverses Commissions et du Secrétariat du Conseil. Le chercheur y trouvera notamment les dossiers suivants : n°17 : Réparations allemandes aux victimes belges du nazisme ; n°50 : Commission interministérielle chargée d’étudier le problème des Réfugiés politiques en Belgique et personnes déplacées ; n°52 : Comité ministériel restreint pour la répartition des réparations allemandes aux victimes belges du nazisme ; n°185-195 : Victimes des deux Guerres.

  8. Charles Benedictus. Collection

    This collection contains: the birth certificate of Esther Benedictus (paternal grandmother of Charles Benedictus), 1840 ; a municipal certificate issued to Samson and Esther Benedictus (paternal grandparents of Charles Benedictus), 1868 ; the wedding booklet of Samson and Esther Benedictus, 1868 ; a Dutch passport issued to Esther Benedictus, 1918 ; pre-war promotional material for cigar factory Primus inter Pares, owned by the Benedictus family, including a deck of cards, a brochure and a catalogue ; a collage of the I. [Isaac] Benedictus - Primus inter Pares brand cigar bands ; a municipa...

  9. Charlotte Leitersdorf. Collection

    This collection consists of a painting created before the war by Charlotte Leitersdorf, showing a vase with a bouquet of flowers. Charlotte's initials are visible in the bottom left corner.

  10. Chemd-Baum family. Collection

    This collection contains six photos and two documents of Maurice Baum, of violonist Isaac Salomon Chamd and of the Chemd-Baum family.

  11. Chojnacki-Mozelsio family. Collection

    This collection consists of two photos : a portrait of Chana Chojnacki and a portrait of Joseph Mozelsio.

  12. Cipa Wajncwajg. Collection

    This collection consists of two postcards sent by Cipa Wajncwajg to her husband Moszek Klainer and their children Bernard and Annie, while interned at the Dossin barracks in September 1942.

  13. Circular regarding the exclusion of Jews from public office in Borgerhout. Collection

    This circular contains information regarding the exclusion of Jews from public office in the municipality of Borgerhout, Antwerp. The content is based on the German anti-Jewish decree of 28 October 1940.

  14. Class photos of girls attending the Institut Bosquet in Antwerp. Collection

    This collection consists of two class photos taken in May 1941 of the girls attending the fifth and sixth grade at the Institut Bosquet in Antwerp. Among these girls are donor Colette Gilles de Fontenailles-Van Dooren and her Jewish classmates Eugenie Chor (who did not survive deportation from the Dossin barracks to Auschwitz-Birkenau via transport XVII), Nini Berneman (who survived the war in hiding in the Belgian Ardennes), Renée Landau (who survived the war by fleeing to Switzerland) and an unidentified Jewish girl.

  15. Class picture of girls at Tachkemoni school. Item

    This class picture shows a group of girls around the age of six attending Tachkemoni school in Antwerp in 1939. The teacher on the right has been identified as Sura Breindel Schwarz.

  16. Cohen-de Vries family. Collection

    This collection contains: eight pre-war photos of Hersch Mozes Cohen, his wife Alida de Vries and their son Maurice Cohen, taken during two separate vacations, including a trip to the seaside ; a photo of Emile Huber, Albine Vanryckegem and their daughter Angèle, neighbours of the Cohen-de Vries family, 1944 ; two photos of Frank Huber, neighbour of the Cohen-de Vries family and a member of the Witte Brigade [White Brigade] armed resistance movement, 1944 ; an embroidered table cloth entrusted by the Cohen-de Vries family to the Huber-Vanryckegem family before their attempt to flee or go in...

  17. Collection d’affiches de Belgique à thème juif.

    Cette collection comprend des affiches provenant à 55% de Bruxelles, à 39% d’Anvers et à 6% d’autres villes du pays. Il s’agit d’affiches de taille, de style et de couleurs variées. Elles annoncent des évenements culturels et politiques et traitent de divers thèmes: la culture, le sionisme, la religion, la diaspora, le soutien à Israël, l’antijudaïsme, l’antisionisme, la mémoire de la Shoah, etc. Cette riche collection reflète le dynamisme et la diversité des populations juives en Belgique.

  18. Collection de films.

    Cette collection comprend des films relatifs au judaïsme, à la Shoah, à Israël et des films yiddish. On y trouve des films de fiction et des documentaires. La plupart des films sont sous-titrés en français ou/et en anglais.

  19. Collection de photographies.

    Cette collection contient différents types de photographies: des plaques de verre, des papiers au gélatino-bromure d’argent, des ambrotypes, des ferrotypes, des photographies cartes de visite, des photographies de type papier salé, des photographies sur papier albuminé. Les photographies sont classées par ordre semi-thématique, par thème et dans certains cas par photographe. Les thèmes abordés sont les suivants: des portraits familiaux; le sionisme; le Bund; les organisations juives (dont le B’nai B’rith, Na’amat …); des manifestations (Russie, Israël ...); le CCLJ; la musique, les métiers,...

  20. Collection des Acquisitions du Département III.

    Cette collection est riche et variée. On y trouve notamment les dossiers suivants : n° 458 « dossiers concernant le Mémorial National de Breendonk et le monument Ianchelevici » (1947-1964) ; n°776 « rapports de la mission du Commissariat aux prisonniers, déportés et réfugiés, Mission de Londres, Service d’action et de propagande, Rapport sur les camps de concentration en Allemagne, 30 juin 1944, Rapports du Jewish Central Information Office, mai 1945 » ; n° 892 « deux fiches tirées du Registre des Juifs ».