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Language of Description: English
Country: Belgium

  1. 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.

  2. Items of the Belgian police force. Collection

    This collection consists of: the uniform (trousers, belt, jacket and cap) worn by the Mechelen police corps in 1931-1951 (probably the Interbellum); a war-time white helmet worn by the Antwerp police corps; a black helmet worn by the Antwerp police corps from the First World War until 1942; a white helmet worn by the Deurne police corps from 1942 until the 1960s; a cap introduced by the German occupying authorities and worn by the Antwerp police corps in 1940-1944; a file with documents on the Mobile Police Brigade in Mechelen, 1943-1944.

  3. Elise Leekens. Collection

    This collection contains 1 travelling trunk in pressed cardboard, wood and leather handles as is. The initials L.R. are indicated on the top of the trunk. This trunk belonged to Wolf Leib Richter, husband of Feigel Ritterman. This collection also contains two photos showing Elise Leekens who had kept the travelling trunk with her after the war.

  4. Gittel Eisner. Collection

    This collection contains two pre-war studio portraits of Abram alias Avram Cohn and Gittel Eisner with their daughter Deborah Cohn.

  5. Research by Jean-Paul Denis on the municipality of Jette. Collection

    This collection consists of four folders containing copies of historical documents on the persecution of the Jewish community and on the resistance in Jette. The documents include copies of items from the municipal archives of Jette, the Jewish Museum of Belgium, the Archives Service for War Victims, the State Archives of Belgium and Kazerne Dossin as well as information obtained by Jean-Paul Denis from family members of resistance fighters.

  6. 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.

  7. 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...

  8. Roger Pauwels. Collection

    This collection consists of: two photos of a young Roger Pauwels ; two documents of the Sotramont company confirming Roger Pauwels's departure to and arrival at Auschwitz ; a letter and a telegram sent by Roger Pauwels while working in Auschwitz to his parents in Brussels ; two post-war documents regarding the search for Roger Pauwels ; a deportation commemoration medal.

  9. Ilzycer-Dembrowska family. Collection

    This collection consists of one postcard sent by Icchok Ilzycer, during his internment at the Dossin barracks in April 1943, to the catholic priest Roger Dereymaeker. The text contains an encoded reference to Icchok Ilzycer youngest daughter Jenny, whom was in hiding.

  10. Transcripts of interrogations of Adolf Eichmann in preparation of his trial. Item

    This item consists of six volumes containing the transcriptions of the interrogations of Adolf Eichmann by investigator Avner Werner Less, conducted between 29 May 1960 and 15 January 1961.

  11. Rozenblum family. Collection

    This collection contains 5 photographs: KD_00961_000001: photo of Israel David (aka Andre) Rosenblum/Rozenblum, stamped 2 July 1943 on the back. KD_00961_000002 - KD_00961_000005: photos of two men who liberated the mother of Nicole Gold, these being firstly Fred Leverett from the Royal Canadian Airforce (RCAF) and secondly another man from the British Royal Air Force (RAF). KD_00961_000006 - KD_00961_000007: photos from Nicole Gold’s visit to the Stolpersteine of her family at their address 53 Rue Haute / Hoogstraat 53 in Brussels.

  13. Sara de Leeuw. Collection

    This collection consists of two letters and a postcard sent by Sara de Leeuw to her friend Annie Boekelaer during Sara's internment at camp Vught in the Netherlands, and a photo of Sara de Leeuw.

  14. Fanny Biber. Collection

    This collection contains one photograph and three photocopied documents : picture of Fanny Biber and her husband Abraham Max Lipschutz wearing the yellow badge ; a "Schutzbrief" from the Swiss embassy in Berlin certifying Fanny Biber's British nationality ; a displaced person card ; a declaration from the staff at the Vittel camp proving that Fanny Biber received the certificate from the Suisse embassy.

  15. Letter from Salomon Florsheim regarding his internment in the Theresienstadt ghetto. Collection

    This photocopied letter from Salomon Florsheim to Lola Kramarsky contains information regarding Salomon's internment in the Westerbork camp, the Netherlands, and the Theresienstadt ghetto, Tsjechoslovakia (today Czech Republic).

  16. Simon Heymans. Collection

    This collection contains : a photo of Simon Heymans, two letters sent by Simon Heymans while imprisoned at Saint-Gilles, Brussels, to his wife and daughter in Tilburg, including lists of goods he wanted to receive and information on the procedure to visit him ; a postcard sent by Simon Heymans while detained at the Dossin barracks to his wife, misses Heymans-Bollekamp, and their daughter.

  17. David Michel Speyer. Collection

    This collection contains 2 photographs showing David Michel Speyer posing for a portrait in 1916 and David Michel Speyer with his wife Marie Rosalie Kerremans and their two daughters Simonne Anna Eugènie Speyer and Eugenie Clémentine Speyer on the beach in 1927.

  18. Majlech Ingberg. Collection

    This collection contains : the document drafted by the Belgian state confirming the acknowledgement of Majlech Ingberg as a member of an underground organisation distributing clandestine press ; four photocopied documents regarding the medals received by Majlech Ingberg as a member of the resistance.

  19. Administration de la Sûreté Publique. Service de la Police des Étrangers. Dossiers individuels ouverts entre 1835 et 1912 (nos 1 – 999.999).)

    • Public Security Administration. Foreign Police Department. Individual files opened between 1835 and 1912 (no. 1 - 999.999.999).

    The Foreign Police opened an individual file on each foreigner who entered the country. The files are numbered in the order assigned to them when they were first opened. These files generally consisted of: a declaration of registration in a municipality, references to the family and professional situation and the period during which the foreigner wished to remain in Belgium; relocations and changes of residence; civil status records, including marriage, birth and death certificates; the files dating back to the 19th century contain few photos except for the files of so-called "dangerous" fo...

  20. Henrotte-Balay family. Collection

    This collection contains : a declaration signed by Emile Dernivoy regarding the resistance activities of Hubert Henrotte and Emma Balay ; certificates of civil resistance awarded to Hubert Henrotte and Emma Balay by the Kingdom of Belgium ; a class picture of the fourth grade at the Bressoux communal school in 1936-1937, with among the pupils Louise Henrotte and five identified Jewish girls, including Estera Chana (Anna) Szlamowicz.