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Ce fonds est de grand intérêt pour des recherches relatives à la controverse liée au XXème convoi, à l’affaire Livschitz, aux relations entre la résistance, le Front de l’Indépendance et le CDJ, la Fédération nationale des Anciens Combattants et Résistants armés juifs de Belgique, … On notera également des pièces relatives au Groupe G et à la résistance juive, des documents relatifs à l’AJB, et des ...

This collection contains: the documentary “Darkness and Light” on the story of Irene alias Rina Szmulewicz-Mondlin, created by Gaël Krajzman Johns (https://vimeo.com/446912076) ; the documentary “Nous sommes là!” on the story of Irene’s cousin Francine Erlich and Francine’s husband Marcel Holender, created by Gaël Krajzman Johns (https://vimeo.com/498783061) ; the documentary “We are here!” on the ...

Ce fonds est très riche. On y notera principalement les dossiers suivants : n°16 : dossier concernant les Juifs évacués d’Anvers via le Luxembourg (1941), l’Aide aux familles des Juifs désignés d’office par l’Office du Travail de Bruxelles pour aller travailler en France occupée (1942) ; n°40 : Constitution de dossier de principe pour le personnel juif des établissements auxiliaires (1944) ; n°42 : ...

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Digital copy available as collection KD_00597 at Kazerne Dossin

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This collection consists of five postcards sent by Abram Hofnung while detained at the Dossin barracks in August 1942 to his wife Bajla Taszman in Brussels.

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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 ...

The Kopelman family originally resided in Russia. Marie Kopelman-Hancess had spent time in Belgium before 1940 and she was able to flee from Paris to Switzerland with her husband and daughter in 1941, where they lived out the rest of the war. Marie Kopelman-Hancess passed away in 1999. Marie's aunt, the widowed Perla Kopelman-Guidalevitch, had migrated from Sebastopol, Russia, to Belgium in 1920 together ...

Fonds consists of records relating to the pre- and post-war experience of Rebecca (née Buckman) Teitelbaum, Herman Teitelbaum and their family. Fonds is arranged into five series: Notebooks (1944-1945), Correspondence (1944-1945), Identification and related records (1938-1974), Photographs ([1941]-1947) and Objects [1944].

The collection consists of photographs depicting Cecile Rojer Jeruchim's experiences as a hidden child in Belgium during the Holocaust. Included are depictions of Cecile, her siblings Anny and Charles, and parents Abraham and Geshewa before World War II, the children's home of "Hirondelles," a meeting with Sister Clotilde in 1946, and post-war trips to London, England, and Rochefort, France.

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White tablecloth partially embroidered by Salomea Fejnman Poler circa 1940-41, in Anderlecht, Belgium, and recovered by David Poler, her father-in-law, after the war. The persecution of Jewish persons in Belgium by German authorities after the May 1940 invasion, made it extremely difficult for Salomea, 33, to care for her five children, ages ten to two: Jeannine, Lilian, Rosette, Fanny, and Abraham. ...

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Nuta Manelewitsh was born in Kuchary, Poland, on 4 February 1902. In 1930 he married Chana Zarwanitzer, born on 26 December 1904 in Nowy Kalusz (or Kałusz Nowy), formerly Poland (now Ukraine). Their son Nochem alias Norbert Manelewitsh was born in Essen on 14 October 1938. Eleven months later the orthodox Jewish family fled to Belgium and settled in Brussels, where they still lived when Nazi-Germany ...

In 1961 the Union des déportés juifs de Belgique – Vereniging van Joodse Weggevoerden in België (UDJB) [Association of Jewish Deportees of Belgium], presided by Maurice Pioro, launched the idea for the creation of a national memorial dedicated to Jews from Belgium who perished during the Holocaust. As the Dossin barracks in Mechelen, where the former SS-Sammellager had been located, were still being ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00083 at Kazerne Dossin

This collection consists of two postcards sent by Cipa Wajncwajg to her husband Moszek Klainer and their children Bernard and Annie, while interned at the Dossin barracks in September 1942.

Moszek Morgen was born in Kielce, Poland, in 1912. He became a mechanic, later a jeweler, and in 1928 he emigrated to Lüttich (Liège/Luik), Belgium, to work in his uncle’s bike shop. In the 1930s Moszek moved to Anderlecht, where he married Suzanne Duchesne, a non-Jewish Belgian artist. Their son Serge Morgen was born in 1939. On 9 May 1942, Moszek Morgen was arrested at a café by the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst ...