Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Memoirs of Hertha Ligeti-Fuchs, born in Vienna, Austria, 1920, regarding her experiences as a member of the Resistance in Brussels, Belgium, imprisonment and deportation to Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and Neustadt-Glewe concentration camps, and regarding the fate of the Jewish population of Marosvasarhely, Transylvania, 1938-1945 Emigration of Hertha from Vienna, Austria, to Brussels, Belgium, 1938; Activities in the Belgian Resistance and arrest by the secret counter-intelligence following betrayal, June 1942; detention in Saint Gilles, Belgium; deportation to the Caserne Dossin (Dossin Barracks) in Malin...

File Number : 2069

Type of Material : Memoirs, Reports

Language : German

Biographical summary regarding Poalei Zion Left activist, Nachum [Nuchim Pomeranc] Pomerantz, born in Sosnowiec in 1902; membership certificate in the Mouvement national belge, 1940-1945; Jewish National Fund (JNF) certificate in the name of Nuchim Pomeranc - Biographical summary regarding Nachum [Nuchim Pomeranc] Pomerantz, born in Sosnowiec in 1902 (he died in 1973): membership in the Poalei Zion Left movement from a young age; emigration to Belgium; public and political party activities, in particular in the area of children's education; participation in the establishment of Jewish schools in Brussels...

File Number : 191

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Diploma, Biography

Language : Hebrew, French, Yiddish

Documentation created in Belgium from a file requesting recognition of Arthur Rechtwag, born in Bolechov, 1903, a Belgian Resistance activist who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, as a "Political Prisoner" Documentation from a file requesting declaration of Arthur Rechtwag as a "Political Prisoner": - Questionnaire from the Oeuvre nationale des anciens combattants, déportés et prisonniers politiques de la guerre (National Organization of Veterans, Deportees and Political Prisoners of the War 1914-1918) in Brussels completed by Arthur Rechtwag in Brussels, 01 July 1946, in order to be declared a...

File Number : 1142

Type of Material : Reports, Protocol, Declaration, Letter, Questionnaire

Language : French

Testimony of Willy Akiba Halpert, born in Metz, France in 1933, regarding his experiences while in hiding in Belgium while using the false name of Willy van Hamme during 1942-1946, and the fate of his family members during the war His family's life in Antwerp; escape of relatives from Germany to France and Belgium in 1938 (most of them perished during the Holocaust); German occupation of Belgium; his father's activities in the Belgian underground; manhunts for Jews and for members of the underground; his father is captured on the street in August 1942; transfer of the witness to a hiding place in a castle in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Chaim Paz, born in Brussels, Belgium in 1933, regarding his family's experiences in Belgium during 1940-1945, and documentation regarding the activities of his father Mojsze-Juda Paciorkowski in the Belgian underground - Memoirs of Chaim Paz, born in Brussels in 1933, regarding his and his family's experiences in Belgium during 1940-1945 (in English): German invasion of Belgium, 10/05/1940; registration of Jews and Jewish property, late 1940-early 1941; friendship of his father Mojsze Paciorkowski with the municipal Police chief and with other officials (including at the same time with...

File Number : 9538

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Photocopy, Certification, Memoirs, Letter

Language : French, English