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  1. De Ceulaer-Margulies family. Collection

    This collection consists of two photos of the four De Ceulaer-Margulies family members, posing in group in their living room and in the garden.

  2. Give Them a Face (France) portrait collection. Collection

    This collection contains over 4,200 portraits of Jewish men, women and children from Belgium, whom have been deported from the French camps Drancy, Angers, Beaune-la-Rolande, Compiègne, Pithiviers and Lyon, to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Maidanek and Kaunas between March 1942 and August 1944. Among the deportees, four groups can be distinguished : persons that had lived in Belgium and whom had emigrated to France legally before the beginning of the war, persons that fled from Belgium to France in May 1940 or afterwards, children born out of these refugees in France and persons arrested by ...

  3. Rajter family. Collection

    This collection contains photos of the Rajter family, including: passport photos and wedding photos of Estera Rajter and Abram Ciechanow, photos of Estera Rajter and Abram Ciechanow with their son Willy Rajter (Ciechanow), a photo of Willy Rajter (Marks) and his mother Gitla Rajter, and wartime photos of Willy Rajter while housed at the Baron de Castro children’s home led by the Association of Jews in Belgium.

  4. Evelyne Haendel. Collection

    This collection contains: pre-war photos of the wedding and honeymoon of Evelyne Haendel’s parents Moses alias Marcel Haendel (also Handel or Händel) and Pessa Wolfowicz ; pre-war and wartime photos of members of the extended Haendel-Wolfowicz family, including Scheindla Wolfowicz and her daughter Ursula Frommer or Julius Wolfowicz and his wife Ella Diamant and Jetti alias Itte Haendel alias Hecht ; wartime photos of Evelyne Haendel with rescuers such as Georges Vandor and the Krings family ; a post-war photo of Evelyne Haendel's solemn communion

  5. Violin of Maurice Flam. Collection

    This item is a violin used by an unidentified prisoner to play for the guards at the Dora concentration camp and taken to Belgium by camp survivor Maurice Flam in 1945.

  6. Herta Frucht. Collection

    This collection contains two group photos of girls spending their summer at the Diesterweg children’s colony in Heide-Kalmthout in 1939. Among those depicted are Herta Frucht and her friend Maria De Roy.

  7. Charlotte Leitersdorf. Collection

    This collection consists of a painting created before the war by Charlotte Leitersdorf, showing a vase with a bouquet of flowers. Charlotte's initials are visible in the bottom left corner.

  8. Cohen-de Vries family. Collection

    This collection contains: eight pre-war photos of Hersch Mozes Cohen, his wife Alida de Vries and their son Maurice Cohen, taken during two separate vacations, including a trip to the seaside ; a photo of Emile Huber, Albine Vanryckegem and their daughter Angèle, neighbours of the Cohen-de Vries family, 1944 ; two photos of Frank Huber, neighbour of the Cohen-de Vries family and a member of the Witte Brigade [White Brigade] armed resistance movement, 1944 ; an embroidered table cloth entrusted by the Cohen-de Vries family to the Huber-Vanryckegem family before their attempt to flee or go in...

  9. Porcelain tableware set of Hester Raizmann-Rood. Collection

    This Davenport tableware set produced by Hollinshead & Kirkham in Tunstall, England, given to Hester Raizmann-Rood as a wedding gift, consists of twelve soup plates, twelve large plates, eleven dessert plates, one sauce dish, one platter for vegetables, one platter for meat, one soup tureen with lid and three vegetable bowls with lid.

  10. Estera Laja Rozenberg. Collection

    This collection contains two group pictures of Estera Laja alias Ida Rozenberg and her friends of the Zionist youth movement Gordonia during field trips.

  11. Elise Leekens. Collection

    This collection contains 1 travelling trunk in pressed cardboard, wood and leather handles as is. The initials L.R. are indicated on the top of the trunk. This trunk belonged to Wolf Leib Richter, husband of Feigel Ritterman. This collection also contains two photos showing Elise Leekens who had kept the travelling trunk with her after the war.

  12. Birenbaum-Flescher family. Collection

    This collection consists of a studio portrait of Salka Flescher and a casual portrait of siblings Jenny alias Schenja, Esther alias Erna and Joseph Birenbaum

  13. Hauser-Ingber family. Collection

    This collection contains eleven photos of members of the Hauser and Ingber families. A first photo shows Melanie Ingber in 1920, who married Pinkus (Paul) Barber. A next one shows Rene Reinhold in 1936, son of Charlotte Ingber and Salomon Reinhold. Charlotte Ingber with son Sylvain Reinhold is visible in the third photo from 1938. On the fourth photo from 1944 Salomon Reinhold, husband of Charlotte Ingber, can be seen. The fifth photo portrays Charlotte Ingber herself in 1926. Jacob/Jukiel Ingber and Regina Neubauer, parents of Charlotte and Melanie, can be seen on the next one from 1909. T...

  14. Kosterich family. Collection

    This collection contains four pictures portraying members of the Kosterich family, including: Max Kosterich, Hedwig Goldschmidt, Walter Joseph Kosterich, Manfred Kosterich, Oskar Kosterich and Hans Kosterich.

  15. David Michel Speyer. Collection

    This collection contains 2 photographs showing David Michel Speyer posing for a portrait in 1916 and David Michel Speyer with his wife Marie Rosalie Kerremans and their two daughters Simonne Anna Eugènie Speyer and Eugenie Clémentine Speyer on the beach in 1927.

  16. Bornstein family. Collection

    This collection contains six photographs, showing members of the Bornstein family: Franciska Bornstein, Abraham Kampf, Albert (Avraham) Gunzburg, Arthur (Aaron) Kampf, Lora / Sara Bornstein, Rezi Bornstein, Herman Bornstein, Samu Weinstein, Betty / Basha Schachner, Samuel Bornstein, Eta Kampf-Stieglitz, Harry Stieglitz and Avraham Stieglitz.

  17. Weissblum-Wachspress family

    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.

  18. Goldberg-Kardimann family. Collection

    This collection contains: a studio portrait of the deported Bernhard Goldberg reading a book ; a studio portrait of the deported Rosa Kardimann, married Goldberg ; a portrait of spouses Majer and Malka Goldberg-Goldberg.

  19. Class photos of girls attending the Institut Bosquet in Antwerp. Collection

    This collection consists of two class photos taken in May 1941 of the girls attending the fifth and sixth grade at the Institut Bosquet in Antwerp. Among these girls are donor Colette Gilles de Fontenailles-Van Dooren and her Jewish classmates Eugenie Chor (who did not survive deportation from the Dossin barracks to Auschwitz-Birkenau via transport XVII), Nini Berneman (who survived the war in hiding in the Belgian Ardennes), Renée Landau (who survived the war by fleeing to Switzerland) and an unidentified Jewish girl.