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Category Archives: History and Culture Related Articles
Passenger lists from the Holland-America Line (HAL) at the Rotterdam City Archives
Between 1900 and 1969 millions of people traveled and emigrated with the ships of the Holland-America Line. The Holland-America Line (HAL), originally a Dutch transatlantic cruise company, offered full trips, but emigrants also made use of the HAL. Many Dutch … Continue reading →
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Tagged archives, migration, Netherlands, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Mini-expo at FelixArchief in Antwerp: “Foreigners in a foreign city”
The FelixArchief (the City Archives of Antwerp: https://felixarchief.antwerpen.be) announced in their recent newsletter from February, sent out via email, that the subject of the mini-expo which will run from February 12, 2019, until Friday, April 5, 2019, will be about … Continue reading →
Posted in België, Events, Genealogy Related Articles, History and Culture Related Articles
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Tagged alien files, antwerp, Felixarchief, immigration
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The Joodsche Almanak / Almanach Juif issued in 1934 by J. Fuss and J. Salpeter
In 1934 an almanac in Yiddish, titled “Joodsche Almanak” / “Almanach Juif”, was published by J. Fuss and J. Salpeter. Edition “Progrés” was issued in Antwerp at Lange Kievitstraat 66. In the publishers’ introduction which was originally written in Yiddish, … Continue reading →
List of Jews living in Pre-War Charleroi
Vincent Vagman has recently published an important  list of Jews who have lived in Charleroi before the outbreak of WWII . Charleroi, which is in the Southern part of Belgium, is a very industrial city, which I’d not consider a … Continue reading →
My Magazine Subscriptions
As a Jew living in Antwerp, Belgium, and with an interest in Genealogy, I have some specific interests which are reflected somehow in my choice of magazine subscriptions. In this article I’d like to discuss the magazines I’m subscribed to (or … Continue reading →
About a certificate for land in Pre-State Israel
When my father in-law and his sisters recently cleared their mother´s home in Amsterdam after she has passed away, they came across a paper which seemed to look like a certificate with text in Dutch for land in, what was … Continue reading →
No ordinary clerks
Recently I went through the alien file from my great-grandfather Gerschon Lehrer, whom I am named after, which I found in the Belgian state archives. While analyzing the documents in the file, I came across some letters written between a … Continue reading →
My grandmother’s embroidery
My mother owns an embroidered painting which her mother created as a young girl and which now hangs in my parents’ living room. The painting shows a landscape: a lake with a tower and a bridge in the background. When … Continue reading →
Request for more information on “Yiddish Antwerp Between the World Wars”
Prof. Hannah Berliner Fischthal requested to post the following request which I am gladly doing. Please contact her for more information (or add your comments below). I am researching Yiddish Antwerp Between the World Wars. I am particularly interested in … Continue reading →
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Tagged history of belgium, Prof. Hannah Berliner Fischthal, requests, yiddish
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Belgian Jewish Life in the different Belgian archives
Just as in other countries, Jews also left traces (and still are leaving traces) in Belgium: The oldest trace is a gravestone in the Flemish city Tienen (French: Tirlemont) of a girl who was known as Rebecca, daughter of Mozes. … Continue reading →