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Country: Belgium

  1. Julius Mehrer

    This collection contains: two postcards from Krajndel alias Karoline Mehrer-Hitnik in Lemberg (today Lviv, Ukraine) to her son Julius Mehrer in Antwerp, 21 March 1940 and 1 April 1940 ; a postcard from Rosa Bellak-Ehrenstein and her sister Margit Friedmann-Ehrenstein in Vienna, Austria, to Rosa’s son-in-law and daughter Julius and Stella Mehrer-Bellak in Brussels, 8 July 1942 ; a postcard from Rosa Bellak-Ehrenstein in Vienna, Austria, to her son-in-law and daughter Julius and Stella Mehrer-Bellak in Brussels, 29 July 1942 ; a postcard from Julius Mehrer, who was being detained as a forced ...

  2. Hans Rosenblatt. Collection

    This collection contains: a digital copy of the Rosenblatt-Ginsberg family photo album, including photos of Hans Rosenblatt, his parents Adolf Rosenblatt and Lea Ginsberg, his uncle Samuel Rosenblatt and his adoptive parents David Dorn and Hanna alias Fanny Dorn taken before, during and after the war ; Samuel Rosenblatt’s American immigrant identification card from 1939 ; an album with handwritten messages of friends of Lea Ginsberg which she took with her when she migrated from Poland to Vienna to marry Adolf Rosenblatt ; postcards received by Lea Ginsberg in France in 1941 from her family...

  3. Gizela Flachs. Collection

    This collection contains a photo of and an interview with Gizela Genia alias Gisèle Flachs. In the interview she describes : her youth in Poland, the departure of her father Naftali Flachs to France in 1938, the brutal separation from her mother Regina Knebel in 1941/1942, the different rescuers and the places where she was in hidden in Poland (including three underground locations in the woods), the work camp Koszary-Boryslav and the gruesome scenes she witnessed there, the reunion with her uncle Leon Knebel and the abuse inflicted by his wife Esther Erbsman, her reunion with her father Na...

  4. Serge Klarsfeld. Collection

    This collection contains: a photomontage of portraits of Jewish children deported from Belgium, used as a cover for the commemorative publication entitled "Mémorial de la déportation de Belgique de 25.124 Juifs et de 351 Tziganes" by Serge Klarsfeld an Maxime Steinberg ; the pages of addendum number 2 of the "Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France" [Memorial of the Deportation of Jews from France] by Serge Klarsfeld, containing portraits of deported Jews, their names and different pieces of information (transport, biography) ; a published collection of various documents used during ...

  5. Varia.

    1. Archives

    In deze beschrijving hebben we de archiefbestanden ondergebracht die te beperkt zijn om een aparte ‘fiche’ aan te wijden en/of waarvan de context onduidelijk is, maar die niettemin interessant kunnen zijn voor onderzoekers. Het gaat om zowel losse stukken (van privaat- en publiekrechtelijke oorsprong), documentatie verzameld rond een bepaald thema, mappen met persoonlijke documenten geschonken door nabestaanden, … Soms betreft het (foto)kopies van stukken die in andere instellingen bewaard worden. We noteren o.a. de nrs. AA 1405 (documenten J. Golard, o.a. inzake “Joden- en pilotenhulp”, 19...

  6. Digitale kopie van het archief van de International Tracing Service te Bad Arolsen.

    Dit indrukwekkende geheel is in feite een conglomeraat van archieven van heel wat verschillende organisaties en instellingen, samengebracht en/of gekopieerd door de ITS om opzoekingen naar personen mogelijk te maken. De focus van dit complexe archief ligt dan ook op de voornaamste groepen slachtoffers – vervolgde personen, dwangarbeiders en displaced persons. De Centrale Naamindex is met meer dan 42 miljoen digitale beelden de meest uitgebreide reeks. Dit steekkaartensysteem fungeert als het globale zoekinstrument voor de identificatie van personen. De verschillende types steekkaarten dekke...

  7. Luttinger-Ohrwaschel family. Collection

    This collection contains five pre-war photos of Cilli Ohrwaschel, her children Lea and Max Singer, and Cilli's second husband Wolfgang Luttinger.

  9. Liliane Steinfeld. Collection

    This collection contains : several documents regarding members of the Steinfeld/Stainfeld family during the war, two photos of deported Steinfeld family members, a Gestapo pin and a scrapbook containing a collection of wartime cartoons published in British and American newspapers, gathered by Liliane Steinfeld.

  10. Fonds 1940-1945.

    Doos 1 (zonder titel) bevat een map “Notes biographiques FF. – liste des FF. Décédés” met daarin lijsten van tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog overleden logebroeders. Ze bevatten beknopte biografische notities, en zijn verdeeld in categorieën waaronder een categorie “gedeporteerde Jood”. In de doos noteren we eveneens enkele originelen van de antisemitische en antimaçonnieke publicaties Le Rampart (organe officiel de l’Épuration, Ligue anti-maçonnique belge) en haar Nederlandstalige tegenhanger “Volkswacht – Actie ter vrijwaring van ons volksch en nationaal erfgoed. Verweer tegen Jodendom, Vri...