be-002157-kd 00120
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results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/be-002157-kd_00120/acquisitions/1
has or had holder: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/institutions/be-002157
has or had some members with language: fra
biographical history: Josek Samoszul was born in Piotrków, Poland, on 24 January 1910, as the son of Szulim Samoszul and Rosa Brill (also Bryl). He became a tailor and emigrated to Belgium in 1929 to work in one of the large tailoring shops in Saint-Gilles, Brussels. He then met Fajga Goldkopf, whom had been born in Lowicz, Poland, on 10 February 1913. Fajga had joined her brother Nuchem Goldkopf (b. 17/07/1906 in Lowicz, Poland) and their mother Estera Malka Stopnick (b. 1867, Leczyca, Poland) in Belgium in November 1930, after their father Abram Goldkopf had passed away, leaving Fajga all alone in Poland. In Belgium, she made a living as a seamstress in her brother’s workshop where they sewed clothes for the department store L’Innovation. Josek Samoszul and Fajga Goldkopf married in Schaerbeek, Brussels, on 10 December 1932. Their daughter Gabrielle was born in Etterbeek on 1st July 1934. The couple started a small tailor’s workshop at home. However, due to the economic crisis competition with Belgian tailors was fierce and other workshops did not hesitate to report Josek and Fajga to the authorities in order to eliminate their business. It is only thanks to an intervention by W. Deswarte, high-ranking staff member of L’Innovation, that Josek Samuszol was not sent back to Poland. In 1937, Josek and Fajga moved to Rue Marie-Christine 49 and revived their business with the help of Fajga’s brother Nuchem and their mother Esther, as the family continued to work for L’Innovation. The Samoszuls still lived in Brussels when Nazi-Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940. On 17 September 1942, Josek Samoszul, Fajga Goldkopf and their daughter Gabrielle were arrested at Rue Marie-Christine 208, where they were hiding. Fajga’s brother Nuchem, who was visiting them at the time, was also arrested. The family was then transferred to the basement of the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst offices at Avenue Louise, where Josek and Nuchem were abused. On 19 September 1942, the family was taken to the Do…
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title: Samoszul family. Collection
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/904
scope and content: This collection contains eight photos including two portraits of the deported Gabrielle Samoszul, five photos of post-war commemorations at the he former SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) and one photo of a celebration by members of the Union des Déportés Juifs et Ayants Droit de Belgique [Belgian Association of Jewish Deportees and their Proprietors].
has record set type: Collection
date: ca. 1940
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/519
type: RecordSet
location of originals: Anna Rose Samoszul-Moes, Private collection, Israel
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/800
has or had some members with language: heb
related material: The picture of Gabrielle Samoszul, which is part of this collection, was also added to the Give them a Face portrait collection (KD_00017).
archival history: In 2017, Anna Rose Samoszul-Moes, daughter of Josek Samoszul and Frieda Preszow, kindly permitted Kazerne Dossin to digitise her family photos.
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/868
accruals: No further accruals are to be expected
identifier: KD_00120
record resource extent: 9 digitised images (8 photos)
has or had some members with language: nld
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/112
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Digitally stored at Kazerne Dossin