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Holding Institution: Kazerne Dossin: Mémorial, Musée et Centre de Documentation sur l’Holocauste et les Droits de l’Homme / Kazerne Dossin: Memoriaal, Museum en Documentatiecentrum over Holocaust en Mensenrechten

  1. Serge Klarsfeld. Collection

    This collection contains: a photomontage of portraits of Jewish children deported from Belgium, used as a cover for the commemorative publication entitled "Mémorial de la déportation de Belgique de 25.124 Juifs et de 351 Tziganes" by Serge Klarsfeld an Maxime Steinberg ; the pages of addendum number 2 of the "Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France" [Memorial of the Deportation of Jews from France] by Serge Klarsfeld, containing portraits of deported Jews, their names and different pieces of information (transport, biography) ; a published collection of various documents used during ...

  2. Laurent Houtain. Collection

    This collection contains: the program booklet of a ceremony in honour of employees of the ‘Nationaal Instituut voor de Radio-omroep’ or NIR [National Institute for Radio broadcasting] killed or murdered during the Second World War, including Laurent Houtain who passed away in a Belgian hospital a few weeks after his repatriation ; four musical pieces written out in notes by Laurent Houtain ; necrology of Laurent Houtain.

  3. Sylvain Paul Zucker. Collection

    This collection contains : a red Nazi armband with swastika as worn by members of the NSDAP ; a Nazi insignia depicting a sword on a swastika surrounded by a laurel wreath, worn by athletes of the Reich ; a Nazi insignia depicting an eagle above a swastika ; an allied military identifification card issued to Sylvain Paul Zucker, a Jewish soldier from Belgium who joined the Brigade Piron in England ; a military driver’s licence issued to Jewish allied soldier Sylvain Paul Zucker.

  4. 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.

  5. Comité de la Colonie Turque en Belgique. Collection

    This collection contains : two copies of a letter from 1943 written by the Comité de la Colonie Turque en Belgique [Committee of the Turkish Community in Belgium] in which the committee asks its more affluent members for donations to support its destitute members ; a file containing nine documents with regards to the activities of the Comité de la Colonie Turque en Belgique in 1943, including reports of meetings with members of the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst to obtain protective papers for Turkish Jews in Belgium, and reports of the committee’s contacts with Turkish Jews held at t...

  6. Madeleine Sulzberger. Package registration. Collection

    This collection contains a form that is a package registration from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen. Madeleine Sulzberger requested a package from Marie-José Smets and Geneviève Hankar on July 24 1944. Since it was only allowed to write one address, both names are combined in order to reach both of them. Madeleine requested multiple clothing articles for a man and a woman (presumably for herself and her husband) and some alimentary products. Madeleine Sulzberger was registered as number 435 on transport XXVI and stayed in Kazerne Dossin in hall IV.

  7. 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.

  8. 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...

  9. Lies Vernimmen. Collection

    This collection contains two stamps showing two different anti-Semitic caricatures designed by illustrator Carlo Deliën, who went by the pseudonyms Olrac and Heraus.

  10. Anna Slomovic. Collection

    This collection contains 9 photos of Anna Slomovic which were taken on the day of her baptism and her first communion at the Martens-Devoghelare family farm in Ursel where she was hidden, and a commemorative card in remembrance of the celebrations which took place on 25 April 1943.

  11. Woydislawski-Schwarz family. Collection

    This collection contains: ten parcel request forms sent by Dora Schwarz and her son Harald Woydislawski, detained at the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) in Summer 1943, to acquaintances asking them for food and clothes ; post-war correspondence between Dora’s brother Rudolf Schwarz and the Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre [Aid to Jewish War Victims, AIVG] regarding the acquisition of declarations of death for the deported Dora Schwarz and her son Harald Woydislawski; administrative declaration of death issued for the deported Dora Schwarz and her son Harald Woydislawski ; ...

  12. Zeire Ha'am. Collection

    This collection contains thirty-six pictures showing different members of the Antwerp based youth association Zeire Ha’am. Most pictures feature the youths posing, including Eric Beckmann and Rosa Ringer, between 1932 and 1933. The locations where the pictures are taken, are mostly camp locations of Zeire Ha'am. These include Heide, Bouwel, Genval, Kapellenbosch and Peerdsbosch. One picture in this collection also shows a class of a Jewish school in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, during The First World War.

  13. Jenny Birnbaum. Collection

    This collection contains: a portrait photo of Jenny Birnbaum, 1944 ; an order from the Kreiskommandantur in Nivelles to misses Lemarchand in Genval to present herself at their office regarding her foster child Jenny Birnbaum, 1944 ; two drawings created by Jenny Birnbaum in Auschwitz, 1944 ; a letter written by Jenny Birnbaum to her family after her liberation at Kaufering Lager XI, 1945 ; a telegram sent by Jenny Birnbaum to the Lemarchand family in Genval announcing her repatriation, 1945 ; an allied expeditionary force displaced person index card issued to Jenny Birnbaum, 1945 ; a little...

  14. Mandler-Handl family. Collection

    This collection contains : a leather tool bag and a red adjustable wrench, brought by Fritz Mandler from Vienna to Belgium in 1938 and used by him while detained at the Dossin barracks where he was appointed head of the Hofarbeiter (Jewish maintenance workers) in 1943 ; fifteen photos, including a pre-war photo of Fritz Mandler participating in a motorcycle race in Austria, a photo of Fritz Mandler handling heavy machinery at the Marneffe refugee centre, photos of Heinz alias Henri Mandler with the Dehaen family which hid him in Courcelles, a photo of Fritz Mandler taken during a visit to h...

  15. Gemeiner-Lewy family. Collection

    This collection contains: the wedding booklet of Moise Josef alias Joske Gemeiner and Rosa Lewy, 1933 ; three fake ID cards issued to Rosa Lewy during the war under the false names Virginie Stevens (Antwerp), Coleta Avezals (Schoten) and Anna Opdebeeck (Antwerp) ; card for a beneficiary of the status of political prisoner issued to Salomon Gemeiner as beneficiary of his father Moise Josef Gemeiner, 1951 ; five pre-war and wartime photos, including a photo of the pelt shop run by Moise Josef Gemeiner at Provinciestraat 143 in Antwerp, a photo of Rosa Lewy and her rescuer misses Vandoren and ...

  16. Koen Pyl. Collection

    This collection contains two small paintings which have been signed by a certain H. Hofbauer. One painting contains a pear, the other one contains cherries. Also in this collection is the wedding book of Petrus Pyl.

  17. Itzkowic-Goldberg family. Collection

    This collection contains: a pre-war photo of Salomon Itzkowic posing with friends in a car ; one postcard and four letters sent by Esther Goldberg and her children Achim Itzkowic, Berthold Siegmund Itzkowic and Arthur Itzkowic in Antwerp to their husband and father Salomon Itzkowic in the Saint-Cyprien and Argelès-sur-Mer internment camps in France (August to December 1940) ; Salomon Itzkowic's certificate of registration in the United Kingdom, 1946 ; a post-war statement by Salomon Itzkowic on his family history.

  18. Apsel-Szulchan family. Collection

    This collection contains the following documents: a Jewish calendar for the year 1942-1943 ; six Polish Zloty bank notes ; a letter regarding the delivery of a uniform to a member of a the Flemish SS ; a photocopy of an Ausweis exempting Moses Pinkas alias Maurice Apsel, his wife Fanni Szulchan, their children Paula and Renée Apsel, and Fanni’s mother Chaja Richter from the anti-Jewish decrees as their names occurred on a list with candidates for the German-Palestinian exchange ; a press clipping regarding the post-war trial of the gang of Lucie Delchambre who had denounced Jews during the ...

  19. Gizela Flachs. Collection

    This collection contains a photo of and an interview with Gizela Genia alias Gisèle Flachs. In the interview she describes : her youth in Poland, the departure of her father Naftali Flachs to France in 1938, the brutal separation from her mother Regina Knebel in 1941/1942, the different rescuers and the places where she was in hidden in Poland (including three underground locations in the woods), the work camp Koszary-Boryslav and the gruesome scenes she witnessed there, the reunion with her uncle Leon Knebel and the abuse inflicted by his wife Esther Erbsman, her reunion with her father Na...

  20. Georges May. Collection

    This collection contains: two work permits issued to Georges May in 1942, confirming his employment by the Association of Jews in Belgium ; one document signed by the Association of Jews in Belgium allowing Georges May to freely move around Brussels while performing his job, 1943 ; two documents regarding the non-Jewish parentage of Georges May's wife Angèle Wybo, including a certificate from the Bureau des Enquêtes raciques et généalogiques, 1943