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

Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu 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. In 1941 Colette Gilles de Fontenailles was a pupil in the fifth / sixth grade of the Institut Bosquet, a French-language school for girls in Antwerp. Among Colette’s classmates were several Jewish girls, including Nini Berneman, Renée Landau and Eugenie Chor. Nini Berneman was born on 7 September 1929 in Berchem. In August 1942 her father Moszek found a hiding place for himself, his wife and his daughters Nini and Ruth with the Gaspard family in Rochefort. The Berneman family took on the false name Bernay, allowing Nini to attend a local school run by the Sisters of Saint-Mary. She and her family survived the war in the Belgian Ardennes. Renée Landau was born on 4 April 1930 in Germany. She and her parents settled in Belgium in 1933. They remained in Belgium until late 1942 after which they made a successful attempt to flee to Switzerland, where they survived the war. Eugenie Chor was born on 21 June 1930. On 30 October 1942 she, her parents Alexandre Chor and Fanny Schor and her little brother Albert were registered at the Dossin barracks. The family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau via Transport XVII on 31 October 1942. All four family members were murdered.