Klara Halberstadt-Carels was born in Amsterdam on 16 July 1921. During the time of the German invasion and occupation of the Netherlands, she was an employee of a raincoat factory in Amsterdam. She was subsequently deported to Auschwitz, where she was a prisoner from October 1943 until the camp's liberation in January 1945, and at some point also worked as a forced laborer outside of the camp. While ...

The collection consists of pre-war photographs of Bracha Plotnik with family and friends in Bedzin, Poland, several wartime photographs, and postwar photographs from various displaced persons camps including the Weiden and Beyruth DP camps.

Striped concentration camp uniform jacket, winter issue, provided to 31 year old Mania Ganzweich in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and worn from 1943 to 1945 in Birkenau, Ravensbrueck, Malchow, and Taucha concentration camps. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Mania and her second husband, Szlama Ganzweich, moved from Czestochowa to her hometown Sosnowiec, joining her daughter from her first marriage, ...

Johan Feldberg was born in Kostiantyniv Staryi, Ukraine, on 28 March 1872. He became a fabric dealer and married Elza König, born in Sambor, Russia, in 1868. The couple had two children before they emigrated from Russia to Ostend, Belgium, in 1901 : Ida (b. 1894) and Abraham (b. 23/09/1897). In Ostend, three more children were born : Eva (b. 09/01/1901), Jules (b. 26/07/1903) and Augusta (b. 08/08/1908). ...

Copyright Holder: Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Germany)

Nathan Sadik (1917-2010) was born Nachman Mendel Sadyk on 17 June 1917 in Mława, Poland to Josef Dowid and Ruchla (née Appelmann) Sadyk. Nathan had three younger sisters: Golda, Chaya Rivke, and Gitel. His father worked as a shoemaker and the family was Orthodox. After completing grammar school he worked in a flour mill to help support the family. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, ...

Regine alias Regina Beer was born on 5 November 1920 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the First World War her parents, the Belgian Jewish couple Henri Beer and Clara Josephine Pinkhof, had fled to the Dutch capital with their daughter Clarisse and son Sally Maurice. When Regine was 11 months old, the Beer family returned to Antwerp. There they experienced the beginning of the occupation in May ...

Majer Weinreb was born on 5 March 1894 in Kopki, Poland, as the son of Israel Weinreb and Ettel Rosenbuth. Majer became a diamond cutter. He married his cousin Rosa Weinreb, who was born in 1893 in Baranow, Poland, as the daughter of Mendel Weinreb and Gitel Hirsch. Majer and Rosa’s two children were also born in Baranow: Scheindla or Sally on 29 November 1921 and Jacob on 6 July 1924. In December ...

Maria Rozengarten Rose was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, to Matias Rozengarten (1877-1942, originally of Siedlce) and to Golda Keis (1875-1941, originally of Warsaw). Maria had an older sister, Ruta, and a brother, Marek, who was the middle child. Marek completed trade school and opened a haberdashery in Warsaw. He married Maryla Wahl, and had a son, Czesio, born in 1934. In 1935, Ruta married Adam ...

Copyright Holder: Mrs. Eva Ostwalt

David Weissblum was born in Tarnow, Poland, on 30 October 1911. He became a furrier. On 5 July 1936 he married Giza alias Gitel Wachspress, who was born in Tarnow on 15 December 1916. In July 1939 David and Giza fled to Belgium where Giza had relatives. The couple settled at Guldenvliesstraat 18, awaiting their visa to emigrate. In January 1940, they moved to Rudolfstraat 64 where they still resided ...

The collection documents the post-war experiences of Max and Dorothy Folk, both of whom survived the Holocaust and married in Landsberg am Lech, Germany after the war. The collection primarily consists of biographical and identification papers from Landsberg, documents regarding their respective Holocaust experiences, papers related to their immigration to the United States in 1950, and restitution ...

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Borisewitz family, Private collection, digitised by Kazerne Dossin