Alfred Kuchler was born in Berlin, Germany, on 14 September 1919 as the son of Josef Kuchler and Golda Süss (sometimes Grün). Alfred became a furniture maker. On 15 July 1939, he clandestinely crossed the German-Belgian border near Herbesthal and reported with the Belgian immigration authorities to request a Belgian residence permit. It was Alfred’s intention to obtain a visa for France and to join ...

Simon Lewkowicz was born in Raczki, Poland, in 1896 as the son of Emmanuel Lewkowicz and Chaja Sadkowski. He became a tailor. In 1918 he married Chana Guittel Bot in Raczna, Poland. Chana had been born on 14 January 1895 in Przedborz, Poland. Their eldest child, a daughter named Chaja Frymeta alias Claire, was born in Przedborz on 10 February 1919. Simon and Chana then relocated to Paris, France, where ...

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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Frajda Mantel was born in Praszka, Poland, on 1 May 1899. She became a seamstress. Around 1923, Frajda emigrated to Belgium where she religiously married leather worker Isaak Turczynski, (born in Zgierz, Poland, on 27 February 1897). The couple was religious and held Zionist beliefs. Frajda would give birth to two children: a daughter named Sonia Turczynski, who was born in Etterbeek on 5 April 1924, ...

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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 ...

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.

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].

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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 ...

Lejbus Wajnacht was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 25 October 1890. He became a leather worker and, on 20 March 1921, he married Sura Dwora Jamajka, who was born in Warsaw on 20 September 1891. The couple had two children. The eldest, a son named Israel (also Izrael or Izraël) alias Jean, was born in Warsaw on 21 November 1922. The family emigrated from Poland to Belgium in 1925 and settled in the Brussels ...

The 1961 membership file card system of the Union des Anciens Déportés Juifs de Belgique (KD_00144_A008991) is yet to be digitised and is therefore only accessible at the Kazerne Dossin reading room.