Leibisch Engelberg: Personal papers
Extent and Medium
1 folder
Biographical History
Leibisch Wolf Engelberg was born in Poland on 15 July 1903 and worked as a jeweller. In 1932 he married Liebe Geldzahler in Berchem near Antwerp, Belgium who was born in Kolbuszow, Poland on 12 September 1906. They had two children: David, born on 22 March 1933 and Israel, born on 4 May 1936. In 1942 the family fled to Nice, France. They were detained in Nice and sent to the transit camp Drancy near Paris in September 1942 before being deported to Auschwitz where the family was separated. Leibisch was then sent to other concentration camps including Gogolin and Chopinitz labour camps, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Warsaw and Dachau. Both, Leibisch and Jozef Engelberg, his brother, lived in Antwerp after the Second World War. Jozef Engelberg, born in Sieniawa on 28 September 1897 was transported to several concentration camps from 1942 including Gogolin, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Warsaw and Dachau where he survived the war.
Acquisition
Journals 57-58, identity cards & letters, Leon Engelberg 26 journals
Donated February 2004
Donor: Rita Hammerman
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence and official personal documents of the Engelberg family.
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Subjects
- Dachau (concentration camp)
- National Socialism
- Migration
- Holocaust
- Auschwitz-Birkenau (concentration and extermination camp)
- Persecution
- Jews
- Gogolin (slave labour camp for Jews)
- Concentration camps
Places
- Brzezinka
- Warsaw
- Antwerp