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Roger René François Pauwels was born in Brussels on 15 March 1924 as the youngest child of Charles Pauwels and Elise Vyvey. Roger had three older siblings: Jean (born in 1917), Alexandre (born in 1920) and Mariette (born in 1922). Roger became an office clerk and lived with his family at Rue Terre Neuve 181 in Brussels. In May 1944 the Sotramont company, specialising in assembly work, published a call ...

On 15 January 1944, 353 Roma and Sinti were deported from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Auschwitz-Birkenau via Transport Z. Amongst the deportees were at least 27 members of the extended Lagrené family. Those deported also included Anton alias Antoine Lagrené who was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, on 13 January 1931, and his aunt Josephine Lagrené, who was born on 12 June 1929 ...

Frajda Mantel was born in Praszka, Poland, on 1 May 1899. She became a seamstress. Around 1923, Frajda emigrated to Belgium where she religiously married leather worker Isaak Turczynski, (born in Zgierz, Poland, on 27 February 1897). The couple was religious and held Zionist beliefs. Frajda would give birth to two children: a daughter named Sonia Turczynski, who was born in Etterbeek on 5 April 1924, ...

After the liberation of Belgium the Jewish community was confronted with accusations against a number of community members suspected of collaboration with the Nazis. The Comité de Défense des Juifs (Jewish Defence Committee or CDJ) and its successor, the Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre (AIVG), established an unofficial Comité Juif d’Epuration. This team – which included members such as Paul ...

Icchok Ilzycer was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 28 March 1899. He became a varnish worker and emigrated to Belgium via Paris, France, in October 1925. In July 1926, he succeeded in bringing over his fiancée Pesa Chaja Dembowska, born in Warsaw on 28 December 1905. The couple got married in Anderlecht, Brussels, on 8 January 1927. On 2 July 1928, Pesa gave birth to their first daughter, Mina. On 18 November ...

This collection contains one photograph and three photocopied documents : picture of Fanny Biber and her husband Abraham Max Lipschutz wearing the yellow badge ; a "Schutzbrief" from the Swiss embassy in Berlin certifying Fanny Biber's British nationality ; a displaced person card ; a declaration from the staff at the Vittel camp proving that Fanny Biber received the certificate from the Suisse em ...

Sara de Leeuw was born on 4 October 1921 in Winterswijk, the Netherlands, as the daughter of Abraham de Leeuw (born on 27 August 1886 in Arnhem, the Netherlands) and Belia Philip (born on 11 July 1885 in Gorenlo, the Netherlands). Sara had three older brothers named Hartog Israel (born in 1914), Rudolf Maurits (born in 1917) and Arie (born in 1918), and two younger brothers named Sallie (born in 1924) ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00629 at Kazerne Dossin

The collection consists of: two diplomas issued to Lambert Robert by the Institut des Arts et Métiers [Institute for the Arts and Professions] in Brussels (1940 and 1942) ; a diploma of rescuer issued in 1980 to Robert Lambert and his parents Jules and Caroline Lambert by the Comité d'Hommage des Juifs de Belgique 1940-1945 [Honorary Committee of the Jews of Belgium 1940-1945] ; a photocopy of a diploma ...