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Tag Archives: Felixarchief
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 →
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Updated website for Antwerp City Archives (Felixarchief)
The city archives of Antwerp (known as Felixarchief) has updated its website. On their website you can read, among others, the following about the update: Thanks to the new search function you can find a relevant search result faster and … Continue reading →
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Getting copies of the alien files
In other articles I have explained a bit about the Antwerp alien files (immigrant files) and about the indexes through which you could find the file number of your relatives alien file (click here for the complete Table of contents). In this article it … Continue reading →
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Tagged Antwerpen, belgian archives, city archives, Felixarchief, genealogy, jewish genealogy
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Expulsion Orders from WWII at the FelixArchief – Part 2: Researching The Inventory
Please read first the introduction and the explanation about this table in my other article, see: Expulsion Orders from WWII at the FelixArchief – Part 1: An Introduction Instructions when using the table: While you type in letters in the … Continue reading →
Expulsion Orders from WWII at the FelixArchief – Part 1: An Introduction
Note: Mr. Dratwa (conservator of the Jewish Museum in Belgium) noted that I should’ve translated ‘Uitwijzingsbevel’ to ‘Expulsion Order’ and not ‘Deportation Order’ (which usually is used when someone was deported to concentration camps). I corrected the wording based on … Continue reading →
Using the indexes to the alien files at the FelixArchief
If you know about a relative who immigrated via Antwerp to Belgium, you can find his alien file at the Antwerp Archives (FelixArchief). In an earlier article on the Antwerp Archives (FelixArchief), I summarized which files are already in the … Continue reading →
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How to subscribe to the online services of the Antwerp Archives
Please note that I am not affiliated with the Antwerp Archives although I strongly support them. Therefore, don’t contact the archives for any question which relates specifically to my website. Only contact them for matters which are related to them … Continue reading →
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An introduction to the alien/immigrants files at the FelixArchief (Antwerp Archives)
Many of the Jews citizens living in Antwerp around the turn of the 20th century were immigrants. In addition, while it is impossible to arrive at precise statistics, of the 65-75,000 Jews living in Belgium on the eve of World War … Continue reading →
A history of the Antwerp Archives (FelixArchief) and getting there
History of the archives: The archives of the city of Antwerp started with two charters from 1221 which the city kept in a huge chest which was longer then two meters and which was called the ‘privilegiekom’. Of each lock … Continue reading →
Old Jewish posters at the Antwerp Archives
The archives of the city of Antwerp (Felixarchief) mentioned in their last monthly e-newsletter the following interesting subject (source): Vooroorlogse Joodse affiches duiken op Vier jaar geleden ontdekten we in het Modern Archief twee dikke pakken met affiches. Het bleek … Continue reading →