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Forged Belgian identity card with the name Antoinette Marie Bergs, issued in Achel, Belgium, 10 March 1940, for Tauba Edelsztejn, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930

Forged Belgian identity card with the name Antoinette Marie Bergs, issued in Achel, Belgium, 10 March 1940, for Tauba Edelsztejn, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930 Move of Edelsztejn to Amsterdam when she was seven years old. German Army occupation of Amsterdam; deportation of her family to a concentration camp; Tauba jumps from the train with her twin sister Adela during its travel in Belgium; injury of her sister; search for help; receives help from a Belgian family; her sister undergoes surgery; transfer of her sister to a monastery; Tauba's life with the Belgian family, including work as a housemaid;...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 88

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Personal Records

results.listIds.lang : Dutch

Personal documentation of Benjamin Laufmann, resident of Antwerp, born in Radauti, Romania, 1902, who perished in Auschwitz, 1942

Personal documentation of Benjamin Laufmann, resident of Antwerp, born in Radauti, Romania, 1902, who perished in Auschwitz, 1942 - Birth certificate for Benjamin Laufmann, born 01 May 1902, issued, 21 October 1948; - Civil marriage certificate from Radauti, Romania, for Beniamin Laufman and Fani Platz, 1932; - Documents confirming that Benjamin Laufmann worked in purchasing mirrors and conducting trade with businesses and factories in Belgium; - Preface page of a children's book that Benjamin Laufmann gave his daughter, Pnina, before the war; Comments by Pnina Yaakobi and Rachel Katz, submitters...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 85

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Official Documentation, Personal Documents

results.listIds.lang : Romanian, Dutch, German

Newspaper clippings regarding the story of Stephanie Degulne, the Righteous Among the Nations, who hid three Jewish children in her home in Mont Saint Guibert during the war; memoirs of Silvain Gilbert, one of the children hidden in her home Names of the children who survived because of Stephanie Degulne, known as "Aunt Fanny": - Silvain Gilbert, formerly "Silver"; - His sister, Toni Silver; - Annie Klainer. In the file there is also a photograph of Mathias, Gilbert and Toni's grandfather, who perished in Belzec, 1942.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8317

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Newspaper Clippings, Photograph, Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : French, English

Memoirs of Irving Schifris Przednowek, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1929, regarding his experiences in Brussels, in hiding and in La Louviere

Memoirs of Irving Schifris Przednowek, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1929, regarding his experiences in Brussels, in hiding and in La Louviere Life in Brussels under the German occupation until late 1942; being hidden in a village by a Belgian family until January 1944; life in La Louviere until the liberation. Deportation of his father, Enoch Przednowek from Malines to Auschwitz, 24 October 1942; deportation of his mother, Golda (Chmielniska) Przednowek, from Malines to Auschwitz, 15 January 1944. Also in the file: Letter from the American Red Cross regarding the fate of his parents during the war, 13...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8278

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Red Cross Letter, Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : English

Propaganda booklet, "On les aura les boches", with antisemitic and anti-Nazi content and cartoons, 1943

Propaganda booklet, "On les aura les boches", with antisemitic and anti-Nazi content and cartoons, 1943 The booklet was printed by Belgian socialists, 1943.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 82

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Propaganda

results.listIds.lang : French

Testimony of Akiva Lachman, born in Przedborz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in France and Switzerland

Testimony of Akiva Lachman, born in Przedborz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in France and Switzerland Family with four children. Belgian underground members hide his family; move to Switzerland with his brother; return, escape and then handed over to the Gestapo in France; receives help from a Swiss nurse; deportation to labor camps in Switzerland with his brother. Details about his wife's deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp and her joining the Kasztner train in Theresienstadt.

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8596