Between December 1940 and February 1941 over 3000 foreigners living in Antwerp (mainly Jews) were expelled to the Belgian province of Limburg. On 18 January 1941, a convoy carrying 58 foreigners arrived in the Houthalen municipality. As of May 1941 the women and children were gradually allowed to return to Antwerp, while the men were first sent to labour camp Op den Holven in the Overpelt municipality ...

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According to the 1918 act of union of Bessarabia with Romania, there was carried out a network of institutions that had the task of organizing the public order. Through the Romanian Government Decree of 1918 on the organization of the police, in each district there were opened and established Prefectures of Police and Special Brigades of Security. Police prefectures were subordinated to the Police ...

This collection comprises the papers of Emanuel Kohn including certificates and testimonials, photographs, copy Red Cross telegrams, family tree; also letters from Kazakhstan from Richard Kohn to Eva Williams, 1983-1997.  

Jules alias Gyula Fleischer was born in Abaujszanto, Hungary, on 12 April 1912 as the son of Aladar Fleischer and Lenca König. On 5 June 1929, a few weeks after his seventeenth birthday, Jules travelled from Hungary to Belgium on a tourist visa, leaving behind his parents and three brothers in his hometown. All would perish during the Holocaust. Upon arrival in Antwerp Jules declared to the Belgian ...

This collection contains : a photo of Jenny Geldzahler with her parents Kalman Lehrer and Tauba Geldzahler, and her paternal grandmother Etty Kalech ; a photo of Jenny Geldzahler at the beach.

Abraham Charles Rozental was born on 19 June 1931 in Brussels as the son of the Polish merchant Heneck Rozental (born on 1 July 1876 in Radomsk, Poland) and his wife Pessa Choch (born on 13 June 1895 in Warsaw, Poland). Abraham’s parents had emigrated from Poland to Belgium in 1930, and had settled in Brussels. During the war, the Rozental-Choch family lived at Rue Emile Feron 67 in Saint-Gilles. Abraham’s ...

David Schickler was born on 16 October 1906 in Grodek Jagiellonski, Poland (today Horodok, Ukraine), as the son of Simon Schickler and Chana Todt. He became a teacher and, in July 1930, he followed his parents to Belgium. David moved in with them at Marinisstraat 3 in Antwerp, but the family changed addresses frequently during the years following their arrival. On 10 September 1935, David married Chana ...

<div>Vera Eliyashiv was born into an upper middle class Jewish family in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1929. Her father, Solomon Gutman, was a civil servant. Her mother Rachel née Gotlieb, died when Vera was six. Her father taught her to read and employed a governess to look after her after her mother died. She learnt Russian, Lithuanian and German at school where Jews and non-Jews alike mixed. The family was ...

"Daniel's mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred, a decorated hero from the Great War, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began, in 1933, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam, he relocated his library to London ...

This collection contains : a post-war photo of Arnold Adell and two friends among whom Roma musician Bilo Adel, 1950 ; a certificate granting reduced public transport fare to Arnold Adell, 1973.

This collection contains: a wartime photo of spouses David Weissblum and Giza Wachspress ; a wartime photo of Giza Wachspress ; a wartime photo of Giza Wachspress and her son Simon Weissblum ; two wartime photos of Simon Weissblum as a baby and as a toddler ; a wartime photo of Simon Weissblum with his rescuer misses Ecran-Petri ; two post-war photos of the Weissblum-Wachspress family.

In 1838, the British government outlawed the slave trade, emancipated all of the slaves in its possessions, and began to interdict slave ships en route to the Americas. Almost at once, colonies that had depended on slave labour were faced with a liberated and unwilling labour force. At the same time, newly freed slaves in Sierra Leone (and later from America and elsewhere) were "persuaded" to emigrate ...

Rosa Kolinski was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1903. She migrated to Antwerp in 1933 and married Markus Schmidt, a Polish diamond cutter. Their daughter Rachel was born in 1936. Due to complications during child-birth, the girl was handicapped. In the summer of 1942 Markus Schmidt was arrested by the nazis and sent to the North of France where he worked as a slave labourer for Organisation Todt. Rosa ...

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Jacques Czapnik was born in Paris, France, on 30 July 1925, as the son of Polish tailor Chaim alias Charles Czapnik (born on 16 May 1903 in Czemierniki, Poland) and Jochweta Rozencwaig (born on 26 August 1896 in Sulejow, Poland). Jacques’ two eldest siblings were also born in France: an older sister named Simonne on 2 April 1924 in Paris and a younger brother named Louis on 5 November 1927 in Amiens. ...

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Tobias Schiff emigrated from Poland to Belgium in 1928, with his mother, Rywa Templer, and his older sister Bajla Basia (Lunia). Tobias' father, Mojzesz, had already been employed in Antwerp for several years as a diamond sorter. The Schiff family were living there when war broke out on 10 May 1940. Identified as a Jew, Lunia was arrested in July 1942 and deported via the Dossin Barracks. Tobias and ...

This collection contains: three pre-war photos of members of the Antwerp sports club Joodse Arbeiders Sportklub or JASK [English: Jewish Workers Sports Club (Antwerp) or YASK], including Philip Swaab and possibly a brother or future brother-in-law called Marcel ; a pre-war group photo of pupils at a school or colony, including Bertha and Eugenie alias Jennie Tygel ; two pre-war photos of Philip Schwaab ...

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HENK LUBKING Henk Lubking wist dat de razzia bezig was, doordat de Duitsers actief waren in de straten in de buurt en steeds dichterbij kwamen. Eenmaal opgepakt liep hij naar het Feijenoordstadion in colonne met een tank achteraan de groep. Henk deed het bijna in zijn broek, hij had niets meegemaakt en wist niet wat hem te wachten stond.In het schip dat over het IJsselmeer voer was ook een zekere Jan ...

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This collection contains: four post-war photos of the site of the Organisation Todt labour camp Dannes ; nine drawings of life at the Organisation Todt labour camp Dannes created by Salomon Buchenholz ; a document from 1946 regarding Salomon Buchenholz changing his surname to Buquenne ; a newspaper clipping published in Le Soir regarding the Organisation Todt labour camps Dannes and Camiers