be-002157-kd 00401
type: RecordSet
location of copies: Digital copy available as collection KD_00401 at Kazerne Dossin
location of originals: Nizan Edelbaum, Private collection, Israel
accruals: No further accruals are to be expected.
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
conditions of use: Nizan Edelbaum, Private collection, Israel
has beginning date: 1926-01-01
has end date: 1986-12-31
has or had holder: be-002157
has or had some members with language: nld
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had subject: 519
has or had subject: 904
has or had subject: 800
has record set type: Collection
history: Leib alias Leon Sosna was born in Dzyzow or Dzygow, the Russian empire, on 27 July 1888 as the son of Jankiel Sosna and Ita Gleizer. On 31 October 1913 he married Basia Krylszner or Kryczman, born in Szaprtowka, Poland, on 18 March 1893. Together they had five children: Baruch (born on 23 January 1915 in Lodz, Poland), Raca who was called Rosa (born on 1 November 1917 in Lodz, Poland), Motel or Mordechai who was called Max (born on 12 February 1921 in Lodz, Poland), Sara (born on 10 May 1923 in Lodz, Poland) and Ita (born on 8 January 1925 in Kalisz, Poland). On 22 November 1926 Basia sadly passed away. Leib then religiously married Liba Trzcinka. Leib Sosna immigrated to Belgium on 12 September 1928. He settled at Rue du Grand Vinâve 27 in Jemeppe-sur-Meuse and was employed at the Ougrée-Marihaye steel and charcoal factory. When his wife Liba and his sons Baruch and Motel joined him in Belgium on 7 February 1929, the family moved to Rue Saint-Marguerite 130 in Liège. Not much later they relocated to Rue Dothée 20 in Liège, where Liba gave birth to a son named Tobias on 2 February 1930. Three weeks after Tobias was born, the Sosna family moved to Lange Kievitstraat 131 in Antwerp. Daughter Sara joined her father and stepmother there in 1933, and daughters Ita and Raca in 1934. On 10 November 1936 they moved again, this time to Van der Meydenstraat 8 in Borgerhout. Leib worked as a market vendor, Baruch and Motel as furriers, and Rosa as a seamstress in the workshop of Zalman Russek. Youngest son Tobias attended the religious Jewish Tachkemoni school. When Nazi Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940 the Sosna family still lived at Van der Meydenstraat. Leib obeyed the anti-Jewish decrees and registered his family in the Jewish municipal register at the end of 1940. On 14 November 1941 Leib, Liba and their son Tobias moved to Brussels, while the five elder Sosna children remained at Van der Meydenstraat. Oldest son Baruch became the head of the household and registere…
history: In 2010 Nizan Edelbaum, grandson of Rosa Sosna-Edelbaum, kindly provided the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, predecessor of Kazerne Dossin, with copies of these items from his family archive.
identifier: KD_00401
record resource extent: 21 digitised images (10 documents and 11 photos)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection contains: eleven pre-war photos of the Sosna-Trzcinka family, including group photos, photos taken during outings in Liège and photos taken while on vacation ; two pre-war work permits issued to Raca alias Rosa Sosna, 1938-1939 ; a war-time postcard sent to Marie Louise Dufour which was the false identity of Raca alias Rosa Sosna while in hiding, 1943 ; a post-war postcard to Raca alias Rosa Sosna from Henry and Jacques (unidentified), 1945 ; a search request concerning Tobias Sosna filled out by Raca alias Rosa Sosna and sent to the Belgian Red Cross, 1944 ; four forms signed by the Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre confirming the deportation of Baruch Sosna, Motel Sosna, Ita Sosna and Sara Sosna in order for their surviving sibling Raca alias Rosa Sosna to obtain administrative death certificates for them, 1949 ; a letter from H. Russek to the Office National des Pensions de Belgique [National Pensions Office of Belgium] regarding his family’s former employee Raca alias Rosa Sosna
title: Sosna-Trzcinka family. Collection