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Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany from his family members and friends in Serbia, Hungary and other places, 1941-1944, a letter written by his future wife Malvine Bodner, including information regarding her family's experiences, 09/12/1946, and personal and official documentation regarding Hermann Helfgott and the Bodner family - Letters and postcards received by Hermann Helfgott in a POW camp in Germany (he served in the Yugoslavian Army and was taken captive by the Germans in 1941) from his family members and friends in Vrsac, Budapest, Dragutinovo, Kragujevac,...

File Number : 2223

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Serbian, Hebrew, Polish, English, German

Certifications by the Jewish community of Antwerp regarding the fate of Chana Ryfka Szpinner and her son Herbert, who were deported to Malines, 10 October 1942, and booklets with the report cards of Herbert Szpinner and his sister Frieda, from their schools in Antwerp, 1939-1942 - Certification by the Jewish community of Antwerp, dated, 06 February 1959, confirming the confiscation of the Jewish property located at Bleekhofstraat 34 in Antwerp, 19 July 1943; - Certification by the Jewish community of Antwerp, dated, 06 February 1959, confirming that Herbert Spinner, born, 16 January 1931, was deported on...

File Number : 158

Type of Material : Personal Records, Personal Documents

Language : Dutch, German

Personal documentation of Walter Simoni, born in Vienna, Austria, 09 May 1919, including documents relating to Malines, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Golleschau, Mechelen, and Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg camps, where he was an inmate, 1938-1945 - Description of the camps in which Walter Simoni was an inmate, including the dates of his detention in each of the camps, 1938-1945; - Document from the Auschwitz Museum, certifying the transfer of Walter Simoni from Malines camp to Auschwitz, 05 August 1942; labor by Simoni in Kl Au III-Goleszow camp; - List of inmates, including the name of Walter Simoni; the list is...

File Number : 157

Type of Material : Document

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, German

Letter from Julius Haberkorn, born in Vienna, Austria, 1906 to his wife Teme in Brussels, regarding his experiences after he was transferred for forced labor

Letter from Julius Haberkorn, born in Vienna, Austria, 1906 to his wife Teme in Brussels, regarding his experiences after he was transferred for forced labor Comments by the submitter of the material regarding Julius Haberkorn's experiences: - Life in Vienna until 1939; - Divorce from his first wife Malka Weisberg (mother of the submitter of the material); - Remarriage to Teme Lebensart; - Escape with his wife to Brussels, 1939; - Occupation [of Brussels] by the German Army, 1940; - Transfer to forced labor; - Transfer to Malines; - Deportation to Auschwitz, 31 October 1942; -...

File Number : 1957

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Documentation regarding the Cykiert family from Liege who perished in the Holocaust, and regarding the children Willy and Ginette Bok who were deported to Malines camp and liberated by the underground, 1942-2007 - Death certificates; police, municipal and archival permits; selections of listings of the deported; legal declarations; legal testimonies regarding the fate of the Cykiert family; compensation eligibility certificates received by Charlotte Lemoine as the wife of a political prisoner who perished; newspaper clippings; - Request form for the search for Salomon Cykiert, filled out in 1944; -...

File Number : 87

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Death Certificate, Investigation Report, Legal Documentation, Personal Records, Certification, Postcard

Language : Polish, French, English

Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Jakob Essig and Jacheta Woznica contracted in Brussels, in the month of Tammuz 5783 (June 1923)

Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate) of Jakob Essig and Jacheta Woznica contracted in Brussels, in the month of Tammuz 5783 (June 1923) Notes from Yasmin Essig who submitted the material: Jakob Essig was born in Czestochowa, Poland, 15 September 1897. Jacheta (Woznica) Essig was born in Czestochowa, Poland, 28 May 1897. From 1918, they lived in Brussels. Their son Maurice was born 04 May 1924. Jakob and Jacheta were deported to the Malines camp, 04 May 1943, and transferred to Auschwitz, 31 July 1943, where they both perished. Maurice was deported to Auschwitz, 29 August 1942; he managed to survive...

File Number : 86

Type of Material : Personal Documents

Language : Hebrew, Polish

Letters and postcards sent by Max Mendelsohn from Saint Cyprien, Savigny and Gurs camps in France to his wife Betty and his daughter Anne in Brussels, Belgium, 1940-1942

Letters and postcards sent by Max Mendelsohn from Saint Cyprien, Savigny and Gurs camps in France to his wife Betty and his daughter Anne in Brussels, Belgium, 1940-1942 Comments (by the submitter of the material, Anne [Mendelsohn] Wigoda): Max Mendelsohn was born in Breslau, Germany, 11/11/1902; he resided in Berlin where he met his wife Betty Barnas, who was born on 03/02/1902; their daughter Anne was born in Berlin, 03/08/1923; move of the family to Brussels, 1938; capture of Max, and his deportation to Saint Cyprien camp, 1940; his transfer to Savigny and Gurs camps later; his transfer to Drancy camp,...

File Number : 1846

Type of Material : Red Cross Letter, Letter, Postcard

Language : French, German

Letters sent by Ignatz Friedman from Marseille to his wife Yetti and his daughter Nelly, 1942, and memoirs of Nelly (Friedman) Grussgott, born in Berlin, Germany, 1931, regarding her experiences in Berlin, 1938-1940 - Letters sent by Ignatz Friedman from Marseille to his wife Yetti and his daughter Nelly, 24/09-29/10/1942; - Memoirs of Nelly (Friedman) Grussgott: Her father departs to the United States, 1937; return of her father and his arrival to Belgium, approximately one year later; arrival of Nelly to Belgium with her mother; attempts made to obtain a permit to emigrate to the United States;...

File Number : 1833

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, Letter, Official Documentation, Memoirs

Language : English, German

Postcards sent by Adolf Wolf, born in Vienna, Austria, 1916, in Malines camp and Birkenau that were sent to his family in Brussels in 1943 - 1944, including postcards Deszo Wolf wrote in 1940 in camps in Gurs and St. Cyprien that he sent to his brother Adolf in Brussels and other individuals Immigration of Adolf Wolf to Brussels after the Anschluss; deportation to Malines camp, 1942; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Mauthausen; life in the camp until the end of the war; life in the DP camp after the liberation in Ebensee after the war; return to Brussels; reunion with her parents in Brussels;...

File Number : 1785

Type of Material : Letter, Passport, Personal Documents, Postcard

Language : French, German

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

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