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Testimony of Regina (Hilsberg) Bernstein, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in southern France and with a non-Jewish family in Brussels

Testimony

Testimony of Regina (Hilsberg) Bernstein, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1928, regarding her experiences in southern France and with a non-Jewish family in Brussels From a family that owns a business; displays of antisemitism and economic damage to the business; family move to Antwerp, 1932; move to Brussels. German occupation, 1940, escape to southern France; return to Belgium because of displays of antisemitism; deportation of family to the camps; rescue with her brother by the AJB, the umbrella organization of the Jews of Belgium which functioned like a Judenrat; entrusted to non-Jewish families by social...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from members of the Cykiert family in the Dannes-Cammier camp, interned in Liège, in the Malines camp, and on the way to deportation; documentation from Belgium and Poland about the Lipszyc, Cykiert, Bock/Bok, and Jungst families - Liège from Maurice Cykiert, in the Dannes-Cammier camp, to his mother Rywka and his brother Salomon Joseph in Liège, 1942; - postcards from Salomon José Cykiert, imprisoned in La Citadelle de Liège and in the Malines camp, to his wife, Charlotte (Lemoine) Cykiert in Bressoux, 1942; - Salomon José Cykiert's last postcard, written to Charlotte Cykiert aboard a deportation...

File Number : 5788

Type of Material : Identity Card, Birth Certificate, Letter, Questionnaire, Certification, החלטה, Death Certificate, Envelope, Article, Genealogy, Personal Records, Newspaper Clippings, Biography, Project, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Postcard, Marriage Certificate, Protocol, Declaration

Language : Polish, French, English, Dutch, German

Memoirs of Supra Wekstein regarding her family's experiences in Seraing, in hiding in Liège and Seraing, and in a children's home in Anderlecht after the war

Memoirs of Supra Wekstein regarding her family's experiences in Seraing, in hiding in Liège and Seraing, and in a children's home in Anderlecht after the war - Memoirs of Supra (Cyprienne, Tsépré) Wekstein, born in Seraing on 25 September 1932, regarding her family's experiences during the Holocaust (her false name during the war was Suzanne). Written in Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium in November-December 2019: Her parents: Abram Sacher Wekstein, born in Lelów in 1898/1899 (emigrated from Duisbourg Germany to Belgium in 1924) and Ita (Burgman), born in Działoszyn in 1903 (emigrated from Częstochowa to Belgium in...

File Number : 11465

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : French

Memoirs of Azriel Siegfried Genachowski, born in 1936 in Antwerp, and documentation pertaining to the Genachowski and Rabinovitsch families

Memoirs of Azriel Siegfried Genachowski, born in 1936 in Antwerp, and documentation pertaining to the Genachowski and Rabinovitsch families - documentation pertaining to the Genachowski and Rabinovitsch families and additional relatives: -- transcribed testimony and memoirs of Azriel Siegfried Genachowski, born in 1936 in Antwerp, about his family's experiences in the Holocaust, and presentation (son of Symon and Dina Genachowski); -- documentation from Odessa, Paris, Latvia, and Belgium, 1927–1942; -- segments of list of Jews deported to the Malines camp on February 26, 1943, and to Auschwit in Transport...

File Number : 11451

Type of Material : Speech, כתובה, Letter, Passport, Excerpt(s), Personal Records, Marriage Certificate, Genealogy, Memoirs, Official Documentation, Personal Documents, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Testimony, Vouchers

Language : French, English, Russian, Dutch, Aramaic

Memoirs of Liliane Levit, born in Ougrée, regarding her stay in hiding in a convent in Liège, with farmers in the Limbourg area, in various orphanages, including Profondsart after the war and aliya to Israel, and poems and personal documentation The history of the Levit family: - Memoirs from 2018 and memoirs in the form of poems written by Liliane Levit, born in Ougrée, Belgium on 09 February 1937, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust (with photographs): - Her parents’ move from Romania to Belgium in the 1920s; her mother’s suicide in Liège, January 1938; transfer of Liliane and her twin sister...

File Number : 10892

Type of Material : Document, Protocol, Poems/songs, Newspaper Clippings, Article, Memoirs, Marriage Certificate, Birth Certificate

Language : Hebrew, French, Dutch

Postcards written by Baruch Katz in Birkenau camp and on a deportation train from Mechelen in 1943; personal documentation, articles and documentation regarding the fate of Katz family members who were born in Poland and Belgium Postcards related to Baruch Katz (in German and a translation to Hebrew): - Postcard written to a friend by Baruch Katz in Birkenau camp, 25/07/1943; on the postcard is a stamp mark of the Association des juifs en Belgique (Association of Jews in Belgium); - Postcard written by Baruch Katz on a deportation train from Mechelen and sent to Miss Blanche at a neuropsychiatric...

File Number : 4039

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Birth Certificate, Excerpt(s), Article, Official Documentation, Postcard, כתובה

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Dutch, German, Yiddish, Aramaic

Documentation from the Population Registry and L'Association des juifs en Belgium (AJB-Association of Belgian Jews) from 1939 and 1942 regarding the Goldman family from Poland; excerpts from lists concerning the deportation of the Goldman family from the Malines camp to Auschwitz; the experiences of the members of the family

Documentation from the Population Registry and L'Association des juifs en Belgium (AJB-Association of Belgian Jews) from 1939 and 1942 regarding the members of the Goldman family from Poland; excerpts from lists concerning the deportation of the members of the Goldman family from the Malines camp to Auschwitz; the experiences of the members of the family Documentation regarding the Goldman family from the Population Registry and L'Association des juifs en Belgium (AJB-Association of Belgian Jews): - Registration cards from the 1939 census in the names of Rywka Minda Goldman, born in Zduńska Wola, 12 May...

File Number : 184

Type of Material : Personal Records, Documentary, Letter, Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : French, Dutch, German

Joint memoirs of Ruth (Klein) Smith and Rosel (Klein) Abramovitz regarding the experiences of their family in Berlin, their escape to Brussels, deportation to the Malines camp and life in hiding in Sugny Joint memoirs of Ruth (Klein) Smith, born in Berlin, 1932, and her sister, Rosel (Klein) Abramovitz, born in Berlin, 1937, regarding the experiences of their family during the Holocaust (held in Kasserne-Dossin, 16 October 2012, and sent 12 May 2013): - Josef, born in Kolomea, 1905, and Lotte (Silberstein) Klein, born in Berlin, 1902 were the parents of Ruth, Eva and Rosel Klein; they were married in 1931;...

File Number : 8988

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English