Silberman-Holzer family. Collection

This collection contains: an audio-visual testimony by Myriam Silberman in which she recounts her life during the war, including the experiences of her father Efraim Silberman who was sent to a work camp in Northern France run by Organisation Todt and who escaped transport XVI taking him to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the help Myriam, her sister Anna alias Annie Silberman and their mother Euga alias Augusta Holzer received from their former housekeeper Marie in Antwerp and from Righteous amongst the Nations Charles Ollinger and Odon Dubois who hid the family in Mons under the false name “Steurs”, life in hiding in the company of Myriam’s maternal aunt Bertha Holzer, her uncle Nuchim Hollander and her cousin Blanche Hollander, and Myriam’s recollection of bombardments on the city ; five photos, including a pre-war photo of Euga alias Augusta Holzer and her two sisters Bertha and Gitel alias Gisele Holzer, a wartime photo of Myriam Silberman at school in Mons, a photo of the Silberman-Holzer and Hollander-Holzer families posing in front of the house in Mons where they were hidden, a post-war photo of Silberman-Holzer relatives and allied soldiers taken during the Pesach Seder organised in Mons after Liberation, a post-war photo of Myriam Silberman taken upon her return to Antwerp in 1945 ; a bound photocopy of the wartime and post-war correspondence between Righteous amongst the Nations Charles Ollinger and several of the people he saved, including the Silberman-Holzer family ; a bundle of speeches from the inauguration in 1994 of a commemorative plaque dedicated to the memory of Charles Ollinger; a bundle of speeches from the 1998 Righteous amongst the Nations ceremony in honour of Odon Dubois ; a newspaper clipping from 1999 telling the story of Charles Ollinger and Odon Dubois, Righteous amongst the Nations ; a testimony written by Anna alias Annie Silberman, in which she recounts the story of the Silberman-Holzer family in Belgium during the occupation.