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Personal documentation regarding the couple Marie (Berger) Schwarcz and Mor Maurice Schwarcz, activists in the Belgium underground, 1933-1948

Personal documentation regarding the couple Marie (Berger) Schwarcz and Mor Maurice Schwarcz, activists in the Belgium underground, 1933-1948 - Forged Belgian identity card in the name of Therese Henriette Leonard issued to the Belgian underground activist, Marie (Berger) Schwarcz, 1943; - Additional personal documentation for Marie and her husband Mor Maurice Schwarcz who was active in the underground.

File Number : 83

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Identity Card

Language : French, Dutch

Testimony of Yishayahu Charles Klein, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Belgium, France, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and in Mauthausen

Testimony

Testimony of Yishayahu Charles Klein, born in Kalisz, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Belgium, France, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on a death march and in Mauthausen Childhood; move to Belgium due to economic difficulties. Persecution of the Belgian Jews; deportation to France; return to Belgium; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; forced labor; death march to Mauthausen; liberation by the US Army. Aliya to Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Julia (Stein) Goldfus, born in Borgerhout, Belgium, 1928, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, Mechelen, Auschwitz, a death march, Gross-Rosen, Ravensbruck and Neustadt Glewe

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Julia (Stein) Goldfus, born in Borgerhout, Belgium, 1928, regarding her experiences in Antwerp, Mechelen, Auschwitz, a death march, Gross-Rosen, Ravensbruck and Neustadt Glewe Witness's family is originally from Poland and lives in Antwerp; attends Belgian and Jewish schools. German occupation, 1940; escape to southern Belgium; return to Antwerp; escape attempt to Switzerland, 1942; detention of her parents; life in hiding with relatives; detention; deportation to Mechelen; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to the infirmary; death march to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Ravensbrueck; transfer...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Deportations lists of Jews from Antwerp to Hasselt, 21 December 1940-12 January 1941

File Number : 78

Type of Material : List of Deportees, Personal Documents

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Arie Finika, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Antwerp and in hiding while using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Finika, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in Antwerp and in hiding while using a false identity His family's life before the war; religious home; his family observes the religious commandments; attends a Jewish school in Antwerp. Escape of the family to France before the German occupation; wanderings; separation from his father; return to Antwerp; deportation of his father to Drancy camp in France; deportation of his father to Auschwitz and his father's murder in Auschwitz; "Aktion" and deportation of the Jews from their neighborhood to a concentration...

File Number : 12218

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lily Itay, born in Berlin, Germany, 1921, regarding her experiences escaping to Switzerland using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Lily Itay, born in Berlin, Germany, 1921, regarding her experiences escaping to Switzerland using a false identity Antisemitism before the war; dismissal of Jews holding government jobs, spring 1933; emigration to Belgium; Hashomer Hatzair activities. Deportation of her parents to Gurs camp, 1940; yellow badge, from spring 1942; rumors about what is happening in the East; obtains forged documents; move to Nancy; move to Lyon; illegally crosses the border to Switzerland. Receives help from the local Jewish community; life in a Youth Aliyah house in Versoix.

File Number : 7178

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation associated with Eugene Glück, who emigrated from Romania to Belgium in 1928, with information about his experiences in the Holocaust, his son's rescue, and the fate of his wife, Sara Stauber, who perished

- questionnaires from the Antwerp police, 1928 and 1930, with personal details about Engen Glück, born in 1911 in Marosheviz, who emigrated from Romania to Belgium in October 1928; - marriage certificate of Eugen Glück and Sara Stauber, who wed in Antwerp on March 29, 1938; - Jodenregister (registration cards) of Jews, issued for Eugen Glück and Sara Stauber in Antwerp on December 19, 1940, noting their years of arrival in Belgium (1928 and 1938). Their son Maurice, born on October 9, 1939, is registered on Eugen Glück's card. - certification from the nonresident police (Vreemdelingenpolitie) in Antwerp, May...

File Number : 100

Type of Material : Personal Records, Declaration, Questionnaire, Record of Murdered Persons, Personal Documents

Language : French, English, Dutch, German

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hannah (Van Den Bergh) Friedman, born in 1939 in Scheveningen, Netherlands, about her escape from the Netherlands and her experiences in Belgium

Testimony of Hannah (Van Den Bergh) Friedman, born in 1939 in Scheveningen, Netherlands, about her escape from the Netherlands and her experiences in Belgium Family life; witness escapes with father, mother, and sister to Brussels in 1941; life in a hotel; Germans invade and search for American pilots who bailed out in the area; witness and cousin placed in hiding with a neighbor; parents and materal aunt arrested; deported to Malines; deported to Auschwitz and murdered there; contact maintained with Andrée Morison, a businesswoman associated with the Belgian resistance; witness and cousin taken to the...

File Number : 14389

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yisrael Birnberg, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in a convent in Kortrijk, Belgium

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Birnberg, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in a convent in Kortrijk, Belgium Childhood in the home of his parents, stateless immigrants from Poland. The German occupation, 1940; his father's departure for France on business; start of the deportations from Belgium, summer, 1942; sending of forged documents for his mother, his sister, and him by his father; their departure for Paris by train; forcing the passengers to leave the train in Menin, on the Belgian-French border; detention of his mother who denied that his sister and he were her...

File Number : 14063

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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