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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;...

File Number : 88

Type of Material : Personal Records

Language : 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...

File Number : 85

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Official Documentation

Language : 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.

File Number : 8317

Type of Material : Memoirs, Photograph, Newspaper Clippings

Language : 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...

File Number : 8278

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter, Memoirs

Language : 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.

File Number : 82

Type of Material : Propaganda

Language : French

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

Testimony

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.

File Number : 8596

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Arie Genislav, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1927, regarding his experiences in Brussels and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Genislav, born in Brussels, Belgium, 1927, regarding his experiences in Brussels and in hiding Parents originally from Poland; family owns a women's clothing store; unsuccessful attempt to obtain Australian documents, 1938; difficulties because of their statelessness. Intentions to escape that were not realized, 1940; receives report orders, 1942; in hiding with help from the underground; capture of his parents and their deportation, 1943. Reunion with his sister after the liberation.

File Number : 9767

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bracha Unger, born in Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in Brussels and with a Christian family in Lubbeek who were later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations

Testimony

Testimony of Bracha Unger, born in Poland, 1935, regarding her experiences in Brussels and with a Christian family in Lubbeek who were later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations Emigration to Belgium, 1940; escape to France; return to Brussels; German occupation; persecution, 1942; move to a Christian family, Maria and Eugene Vallons-Swevers, in Lubbeek; education in the monastery; in hiding of her parents in Brussels; arrest of her parents by the Gestapo. Joins Gordonia youth movement and makes aliya to Eretz Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sarah (Lowenthal) Amitai, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1929, regarding her experiences in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Sarah (Lowenthal) Amitai, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1929, regarding her experiences in hiding Her father is sent to France as a translator for the Nazis; escape from Antwerp with her sister and brother to the home of their former maid; hidden in the home of their former maid; their father joins them in hiding; liberation. Studies until her aliya to Israel, 1949.

File Number : 7089

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Ruth Sahar, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1926, regarding her experiences in hiding with her family

Testimony

Testimony of Ruth Sahar, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1926, regarding her experiences in hiding with her family Her family; religious background; attends a Jewish kindergarten and a public school. Escape from the German air-raids to Middelkerke, 1940; crosses the border to France on foot; unsuccessful attempt to escape to England; return to Antwerp; in hiding during the deportation to Mechelen, 15 August 1942; escape to the home of their former maid; in hiding in an attic in a house in Auade-god for two years; leaves the hiding place during the air-raids in a state of malnutrition, 1944. Return to...

File Number : 7080

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

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