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  1. Mieczyslaw Tannenbaum. Collection

    This collection contains : a photocopy of a certificate issued post-war by American president Dwight D. Eisenhower to Mieczyslaw Tannenbaum, for helping allied soldiers escape to Spain via the Comet Network ; a photocopy of a certificate issued post-war by the British Air Chief Marshal to Mieczyslaw Tannenbaum, for helping British soldiers, sailors and airmen to escape to Spain via the Comet Network.

  2. Adolphe Littmann-Lemaître. Collection

    This collection includes a variety of identity documents, both authentic and forged, that were issued to Adolphe Littmann under his real name and his alias André Lemaître. These include identity cards as a commerce dealer, a civilian employee of the U.S. Armed Forces, and as a member of the French Resistance. Of significance are the false identity cards used by both Littmann and his wife, Hélène Stir, during the war, as well as an earlier identity document for Littmann's father, Aleksander Littmann, from 1933. In addition to identity papers, the collection contains various certificates and ...

  3. Helfgott-Pschetiska family. Collection

    This collection contains: a photocopy of a newspaper article on the death of Jozef Ber Helfgott in 1930 ; two M. Hohner brand harmonicas from the 1930s, played by Eliezer Helfgott and Israel alias Simon Helfgott ; a certificate of primary education awarded to Eliezer Helfgott, 1933 ; a pre-war photograph of Isaak and Bacia Helfgott-Faszczak, ca. 1938 ; identity certificate issued to Israel Helfgott as a soldier in the Belgian army after the surrender on 28 May 1940 ; part of Israel alias Simon Helfgott's wartime identity card and the purse in which this document was preserved by his mother ...

  4. Jozef Weitman. Collection

    This collection includes a photograph of Abraham Manaster as a young man, along with records related to his establishment of a Jewish orphanage in the Generaal Drubbelstraat, Berchem, in 1946. These include an inauguration programme from the orphanage's and a letter from the mayor of Antwerp granting permission for its creation. Official recognitions of Manaster’s wartime activities are also present. A 1960 brevet acknowledges his status as a political prisoner during the Nazi occupation, and certificates from Salomon Lachmann and Ida Sterno attest to his role in hiding Jewish children. The...

  5. Banknotes from Poland and the Lodz ghetto. Collection

    This collection contains : five wartime banknotes (50 Pfennig, 1, 10, 20 et 50 Mark) used as currency in the Lodz ghetto ; three banknotes (10 et 50 Groszy, 1 Piast) used as subsidiary means of payment in Poland after the war.

  6. Spira-Steinhaus family. Collection

    This collection contains post-war photocopies of the front of the wartime identity cards issued to Michael Spira and Sara Steinhaus.

  7. Pieprz-Szron family. Collection

    This collection contains one wedding booklet of Lazar Pieprz and Lea Szron, and four membership cards of Antwerp diamond federations.

  8. Hubert Preiser. Collection

    This collection contains one photo of Hubert Preiser while in Edingen during wartime. Hubert Preiser was a Jewish boy born in Havana in 1927 who grew up in Brussels and, during the Nazi occupation of Belgium, was hidden in a Catholic school by Monsignor Pierre Carlier, a priest who risked his life to protect him. Preiser’s early life was marked by isolation from Jewish culture, and he discovered his Jewish heritage only during the war, after finding out his family’s original name, Preiserowicz.

  9. Vanderhoydonck family. Collection

    This collection contains: three wartime photos of Leen, Mie and Tinus Vanderhoydonck at their family farm in Wijchmaal, province of Limburg ; a Kerag porcelain coffee set which belonged to either the Koral-Vogel or the Muhlstein-Ullmann family, consisting of a coffee pot, a milk jug, a sugar bowl, and five cups with plates, all depicting scenes from the Old Testament ; a showcase crafted post-war by Godfried (Frie) Ceyssens to store the coffee set ; a post-war photo of Godfried (Frie) Ceyssens on a motorcycle.

  10. Reichman-Lipschitz family. Collection

    This collection contains: a pre-war class photograph of the Tachkemoni school ; pre-war wedding photos of the Reichman siblings and the Lipschitz siblings ; pre-war photos of the Reichman siblings and Lipschitz siblings with their spouses, children and friends ; a pre-war photo of Israel Lipschitz playing the violin ; wartime photos of Israel Lipschitz and his wife Rachel Mandel recta Kwadrat, including a photo of them wearing the yellow star ; a wartime photo of Jacob Marcovici, future husband of the donor, with the group of children he was hidden with ; wartime photos of Sam Lipschitz whi...

  11. Jeanne Glibert. Collection

    This collection consists of an interview with Jeanne Glibert. In her testimony Jeanne talks about her youth, the beginning of the war as she fled with friends, living under occupation in Antwerp, traitors who snitched on Jews, Jewish youth friends Betti Van Hamberg, Claudine Van Hamberg and Irène Brandes, and about Jewish links after the war.

  12. Mickey Gliksberg. Collection

    This collection contains the following documents: the ketubah of Meyer Gliksberg and Sura Blumenkranz, 1919 ; photocopies of two letters from the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB) to Meyer Gliksberg regarding luggage lost during the flight in May 1940 ; a file (6 documents and 6 photos) concerning the hiding of Mickey (Michla) Gliksberg at the pensionnat Saint-Charles in Herseaux, including photos of the site, the nuns and post-war photos of Mickey Gliksberg with other Jewish girls hidden at the convent ; a photocopy of a note dated 1943, sent by Henri, a fellow-prisoner of Mi...

  13. Staf De Clercq. Collection

    A photo of Staf De Clercq in uniform which was distributed after the death of the founder and leader of the Flemish nationalist/fascist party Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (VNV) on 22 October 1942.

  14. Miscellaneous newspapers and magazines collected to create the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance. Collection

    This collection consists of work copies of miscellaneous newspapers, magazines, clandestine press and clippings on the Holocaust in general and the Belgian case in particular, stored in mostly Belgian institutes. The copies were entrusted to the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance in 1994-1996, in order to create its permanent exhibition.

  15. Zeire Ha'am. Collection

    This collection contains thirty-six pictures showing different members of the Antwerp based youth association Zeire Ha’am. Most pictures feature the youths posing, including Eric Beckmann and Rosa Ringer, between 1932 and 1933. The locations where the pictures are taken, are mostly camp locations of Zeire Ha'am. These include Heide, Bouwel, Genval, Kapellenbosch and Peerdsbosch. One picture in this collection also shows a class of a Jewish school in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, during The First World War.

  16. Maurice Horoit. Collection

    In this interview Maurice Horoit alias Horowitz talks about: his youth in Antwerp, Belgium ; antisemitism in Antwerp ; his friends at the Tachkemoni school ; fleeing to and hiding in France ; making his way to Switzerland with his brother and surviving there ; the reunion with his parents and their repatriation to Belgium.

  17. Membership forms of the Vereeniging der Joden in België - Association des Juifs en Belgique. Series

    The collection "membership forms of the Association of Jews in Belgium" contains digitised copies of ca. 12,000 registration forms filled in by Jewish families in Belgium, which became members of this organisation as was required after the decree of 25 November 1941. Each form consists of the names of every family member living under the same roof, their dates and places of birth, their date of immigration, their faith, their profession, the family address, the number of rooms in the house and the property owner.

  18. Give Them a Face portrait collection. Collection

    This collection contains over 19,650 portraits of Roma, Sinti and Jewish men, women and children from Belgium and the north of France, whom have been deported from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen and Vittel between August 1942 and July 1944.

  19. Cuba's Forgotten Jewels. Collection

    This collection contains: the uncut version of the interview of Marion Finkels-Kreith by Beret Strong, 2013 ; the uncut version of the interview of Felicia Rosshandler by Judy Kreith, 2015 ; the transcript of both interviews ; the published memoires of Felicia Rosshandler ; an interview with Judy Kreith and Robin Truesdale on the film’s creation process conducted by Kazerne Dossin, 2019 ; an administrative file on the organisation of the screening at UGC Antwerp, 27 January 2019 ; a research report on the wartime and post-war migration of Jews from Antwerp by dr. Veerle Vanden Daelen conduc...

  20. Leentje De Metz. Collection

    This collection contains one membership card of the “Association des Anciens Détenus de Malines” (Organization of previous prisoners of Mechelen (Malines)) mentioning the arrest and release of Leentje De Metz, and two false identity cards of Leentje De Metz with stamps placed on them. Only one of the two identity cards has the filled in false information.