be-002157-kd 00078
type: RecordSet
biographical history: Helene Liliane Steinfeld was born in Antwerp on 14 March 1927 as the daughter of diamond merchant Salomon Steinfeld (b. 20/08/1897 in Warsaw, Poland) and his wife Tressia Leff (b. 08/04/1894 in Przasnysz, Poland). While on vacation in Leeds in 1939, war broke out in Europe and Liliane and her mother were forced to remain in the United Kingdom. Liliane worked as a secretary for the British Royal Air Force during the last years of the war. In her free time, she collected anti-war cartoons from English newspapers. When returning to Belgium on 6 November 1946, she took her scrapbook with her. In 1950, Liliane Steinfeld married Natan Ramet (b. 05/06/1925 in Warsaw, Poland), concentration camp survivor and founder of the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, predecessor of Kazerne Dossin. The couple had three children and several grandchildren. Natan Ramet passed away on 1st April 2012. Liliane Steinfeld-Ramet still lives in Antwerp.
accruals: No further accruals are to be expected
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
conditions of use: Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
date: prewar-1946
has or had holder: be-002157
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 673
has or had subject: 519
has record set type: Collection
identifier: KD_00078
record resource extent: 66 digitised images (5 documents, 1 notebook, 1 object and 2 photos)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection contains : several documents regarding members of the Steinfeld/Stainfeld family during the war, two photos of deported Steinfeld family members, a Gestapo pin and a scrapbook containing a collection of wartime cartoons published in British and American newspapers, gathered by Liliane Steinfeld.
title: Liliane Steinfeld. Collection