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Country: Belgium

  1. Lucy Sara Mandelbaum-Lipiner. Collection

    This collection contains an interview with Lucy Sara Mandelbaum-Lipiner. During the interview Lucy recounts her journey from the DP camp to the orphanage in Antwerp and the arrival there. She also describes the atmosphere and facilities at the home, the staff members and other children, the food and religious holidays, activities such as lectures on Zionism and the bi-weekly Shabbat celebration at the home of her aunt Lotti Mandelbaum, the language challenge, the visits from the women’s committee, Lucy’s visits to the movie theatre with her sister to watch movies with Steward Granger, the t...

  2. Wiznitzer Family. Collection

    This collection contains: one photo of Beate Wiznitzer, who was the mother of Andy Popperwell, her brother Josef Wiznitzer, and their parents Mendel and Rachel Wiznitzer; one photo of Mendel Wiznitzer in his soldier uniform in the top left with his comrades in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War; one passport of Beate Wiznitzer with which she was able to enter the United Kingdom at the end of December 1938; and an envelope in which Beate's last letter to her father Mendel was returned to her in 1942.

  3. Flam-Isbutsky family. Collection

    The card consists of an original photo of Leopold Flam, his wife Julia Isbutsky and their son Plato Flam, in a cardboard envelope, with a handwritten thank you note on the cover.

  4. Fullenbaum-Cukierman. Collection

    This collection contains: one photo of Edithe Fullenbaum-Cukierman on her wedding day with the couple who hid her during the war (Frans Roelands and Jeanne Franckaert) beside her, and one copy of a text publicly read by Edithe Cukierman which includes biographical details about her life during World War II.

  5. 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.

  6. Direction générale de la Sûreté Publique. Office des Étrangers (et précurseurs en droit). Surveillance des frontières.

    Ce fonds est divisé en séries portant sur le cadre juridique de la surveillance des frontières, des instructions générales, des visas et du contrôle à proprement parler des frontières, des dossiers classés par pays frontalier, par moyen de transport comme la voie terrestre, le chemin de fer, les voies aériennes et maritimes, ainsi que des documents concernant le contrôle effectué en collaboration avec d’autres services comme la gendarmerie et la douane. Les dossiers suivants sont de grand intérêt : n°28 : dossiers présentant les instructions aux gouvernements locaux et centraux concernant l...

  7. Isbert Adam and Martin Bendheim. Collection

    This collection contains a notarial deed from Danzig, regarding a power of attorney attributed to the Aronsohn and Barnass families ; financial deeds regarding shipping company "Havana importer S.A." and the debt suffered by associate Martin Bendheim ; a list summing up the content of a business or a house, probably the abolished office of "Havana Importer S.A." branch led by Martin Bendheim ; a Dutch death certificate of Martha Sara Barschall, mother of Isbert Adam ; correspondence and forms regarding the shipping of several valuable paintings among which a canvas by Pieter-Paul Rubens ; t...

  8. Photo series Liberation of Antwerp, donation by Kenis family. Collection

    The topics of the 69 photos in this collection include : Wehrmacht soldiers in Antwerp ; parades of collaborating organisations such as youth movements (Nationaal-Socialistisch Jeugd Vlaanderen (NSJV), Hitler Youth…) ; the evacuation of German troops on 3 and 4 September 1944, using all types of transportation ; victims of the bombardment on Mortsel-Oude God arriving in Antwerp ; arrival of members of the Belgian resistance and allied troops in Gemeentestraat ; the pillage of shops and the destruction of street signs ; the forced transfer of captured Belgian collaborators and German soldier...

  9. Schmidt-Kolinski family. Collection

    Letters and postcards sent by nuns of the Institut Enfant Jésus in Ciney to Rosa Kolinski, the mother of hidden children Armand Schmidt and Rachel Schmidt. Pictures of Armand Schmidt as a hidden child at the Institut Enfant Jésus, photos of the nuns and the monastery, and of Armand Schmidt with family members on vacation after the war.

  10. Anna Poznanski. Collection

    This collection contains: two photos of Anna Poznanski at the beach with her aunt Sura Chana Schwartzberg and maternal cousin Anna Foleider ; a photo of the sisters Frida Birnbaum, Fanny alias Hanna Birnbaum (married Dorn) and Helene Birnbaum (married Hirschorn) at their mother's grave ; a studio portrait of sisters Frida and Helene Birnbaum.

  11. Steinhardt-Guelz family. Collection

    This collection contains: the foreigner's ID card of Martin Steinhardt and the false Belgian ID card of his wife Margarethe Guelz posing as Anne-Marie Richir

  12. Sylvain Paul Zucker. Collection

    This collection contains : a red Nazi armband with swastika as worn by members of the NSDAP ; a Nazi insignia depicting a sword on a swastika surrounded by a laurel wreath, worn by athletes of the Reich ; a Nazi insignia depicting an eagle above a swastika ; an allied military identifification card issued to Sylvain Paul Zucker, a Jewish soldier from Belgium who joined the Brigade Piron in England ; a military driver’s licence issued to Jewish allied soldier Sylvain Paul Zucker.

  13. Algemene Documentatie – Möbelaktion.

    In dit bestand groeperen we de archiefdocumenten die (uitsluitend) betrekking hebben op de Möbelaktion in België, en die beschreven worden onder de titels “Möbelaktion” (stukken afkomstig van het Duits bezettingsbestuur) en “Belgische firma’s en instanties betrokken bij Möbelaktion” (stukken afkomstig van diverse Duitse en Belgische instanties en privé-organisaties) in de inventaris van Nefors (respectievelijk nrs. 1302 – 1312 en 1534 – 1539). Möbelaktion: In de ordner “Möbelaktion. Ordonnances non traduites” (1942-1944) (Nefors nr. 1302) vinden we o.a. briefwisseling en notulen van het bez...

  14. Ines Jacobsohn. Collection

    This collection consists of: one photo of Ines Jacobsohn, deported from Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau via Transport 31 on 11 September 1942 ; letters and postcards written by Ines Jacobsohn during her internment at Rivesaltes to her mother and siblings in France and Switzerland ; postcard thrown out of the deportation train by Ines Jacobsohn ; a letter from the Aude prefecture confirming the deportation of Ines Jacobsohn.

  15. Fonds AIVG.

    Ce fonds contient les statuts de l’AIVG ; les rapports d’activités de l’association (1945-1961) ; des PV, de la correspondance, des rapports, des documents préparatoires et des listes de présence des Assemblées Générales (1946-1961) ; les PV des réunions du CA (1945-1962) ; des publications, des articles et brochures produites par l’AIVG, des pièces relatives aux relations avec d’autres institutions (1946-1970) ; des documents comptables, des rapports financiers, des pièces relatives à la gestion et au patrimoine immobilier de l’association (1947-1961) ; des dossiers relatifs à la gestion d...

  16. Izaak Schachter. Collection

    This collection contains : two photos of Izaak Schachter ; a photo of his non-Jewish wife Annie Deneu ; a photo of his non-Jewish stepdaughter Jeanne Somers with her children Raymond and Lucienne Naudt ; a postcard sent by Izaak Schachter to his wife Annie Deneu in Amsterdam, while internet at the Dossin barracks in 1943.

  17. Madeleine Sulzberger. Package registration. Collection

    This collection contains a form that is a package registration from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen. Madeleine Sulzberger requested a package from Marie-José Smets and Geneviève Hankar on July 24 1944. Since it was only allowed to write one address, both names are combined in order to reach both of them. Madeleine requested multiple clothing articles for a man and a woman (presumably for herself and her husband) and some alimentary products. Madeleine Sulzberger was registered as number 435 on transport XXVI and stayed in Kazerne Dossin in hall IV.

  18. Bestand van de Vereniging van ex-politieke gevangenen van Auschwitz-Birkenau, kampen en gevangenissen van Silezië.

    • Fondation Auschwitz / Auschwitz Stichting
    • BE / Stichting Auschwitz-Fondation Auschwitz / Bestand van de Vereniging van ex-politieke gevangenen van Auschwitz-Birkenau, kampen en gevangenissen van Silezië
    • Dutch
    • ca. 2000 stukken (15 dozen).

    Dit bestand bevat stukken die getuigen van de interne werking en activiteiten van de vereniging. Het gaat om documenten die typisch zijn voor verenigingsarchief zoals statuten, briefwisseling, omzendbrieven, boekhoudkundige stukken, diverse administratieve documenten, documentatie, dossiers, enz. Voor de jaren 1957-1980 is een quasi volledige reeks notulen van vergaderingen aanwezig. De stukken hebben vooreerst betrekking op contacten met andere organisaties zoals patriottische verenigingen (vb. Comité La Flamme), verschillende oud-gevangenencomités (vb. uit Frankrijk en Nederland, maar ook...

  19. Flor Van Laer. Collection

    This collection contains: postcards sent by family members to David Wajntraub and his wife Sura Gitla alias Sara Broner in Brussels (1937-1942) ; a letter from the Antwerp Ortskommandantur to the mayor of Schoten, confirming the confiscation of buildings by the Abteilung Feind- und Judenvermögen [Division enemy and Jewish capital] (1941) ; postcard sent by Edith Silbiger, Jewish secretary at the Dossin barracks, to her parents Arnold Silbiger and Ernestine Kirschner (30 September 1942) ; parcel request form filled out by Michel Van West and his family while detained at the Dossin barracks (...

  20. Alice Spruyt. Collection

    This collection consists of : a Megillah Esther, the scroll containing the book of Esther which is read twice during the Purim fest and which was rescued by Marcel Bracke from a Jewish home near the Antwerp city park in 1942 ; a copy of Marcel Bracke’s post-war forced labourer recognition card.