be-002157-kd 00565
type: RecordSet
location of copies: Digital copy available as collection KD_00565 at Kazerne Dossin
location of originals: Betti Blaugrund, Private collection, Belgium ; Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen
physical characterisitics and technical requirements: The children's desk and chair are constructed in wood and were manufactured by Torck.
related material: The photos of Aline Klajn, Jacques Klajn and Charlotte Guzy from this collection have been added to the Give them a Face portrait collection (KD_00017) and the commemoration wall at the Kazerne Dossin museum.
accruals: Further items will be added to the collection upon digitisation.
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
conditions of use: Betti Blaugrund, Private collection, Belgium
has beginning date: 1910-01-01
has end date: 2015-12-31
has or had holder: be-002157
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: nld
has or had subject: 112
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has or had subject: 519
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has record set type: Collection
history: Betti Blaugrund was born in Uccle, Brussels, on 16 July 1942. Her father was Wolf Blaugrund, born on 21 July 1910 in Nowy Sacz (then the Austrian Empire, today Poland). Wolf came from an intellectual and religious family who held an inn. His mother died when she was in her fifties. In 1929, after finishing studying in a Yeshiva, Wolf migrated to Antwerp, Belgiumn where he joined his older brother Izak Baruch Kollender to work in the diamond industry. They arranged migration documents for their sister Meniche Fradel alias Frieda Blaugrund who arrived in Belgium in 1930 and who, a few years later, married Nathan Schnitzer, a Jewish refugee from Germany who would die of tuberculosis during the war. Wolf’s father and six other siblings would be sent to Belzec extermination centre where they all were murdered in August 1942. In March 1940 Wolf met Cypra Gitla Berlinska, the youngest of eight children. Cypra was born on 14 March 1912 in Pabianice, Poland, as the daughter of Jacob David Berlinski and Laja Maslo. Father Jacob David passed away in 1916 when Cypra was four years old. In 1926 mother Laja and her two youngest children Willy and Cypra migrated to Belgium. A year earlier, in 1925, Cypra’s elder sisters Szewa Mindel Berlinski and Liba alias Lena Berlinski had settled in Brussels. Szewa was accompanied by her husband Isaac Starz and their children Jacob David alias Jacques and Gerda. They worked as furrier merchants and Cypra found a job as an embroiderer. In 1927 another brother and sister arrived: Idessa alias Ida and Israel Berlinski. In 1933 brother Bruno Berlinski was forced to leave Germany and joined his family in Anderlecht where family life continued. Idessa Berlinski married Wigdor Klajn and had two children: Aline and Jacob alias Jacques Klajn. Israel met Rywka Frenkiel in a youth movement. Both were Zionists and left for Palestine as pioneers right after their marriage. Their daughter Aviva was born on 1 March 1935 in Tel Aviv, but in 1936 they returned…
history: Betti Blaugrund carefully collected and kept all photos, documents and objects regarding her family history. The desk and chair were used before and during the war by Aline and Jacques Klajn, her first cousins. After the arrest of the Klajn-Berlinski family, Betti's parents Wolf Blaugrund and Cypra Berlinski hid in the Klajn family home and took care of the belongings of their deported relatives. Betti Blaugrund kept the items safe her whole life and kindly donated the original desk and chair to Kazerne Dossin in 2019 together with several original photographs. The other items in this collection were digitised by Kazerne Dossin and returned to Betti Blaugrund. In 2021 Betti Blaugrund kindly donated original documents on the Blaugrund-Danzig family to Kazerne Dossin. These items were originally part of the relics collection (KD_00005), but were retrieved by Betti Blaugrund from the Ministry of Public Health in 2000.
identifier: KD_00565
record resource extent: 1 interview (3 parts) and 349 digitised images (260 photos, 22 documents, 1 newspaper and 6 objects)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection contains : a children's desk and chair used by Aline and Jacques Klajn before their deportation in October 1942 ; clogs carved for Betti Blaugrund by Louis Ceulemans while she was in hiding at the Ceulemans-Gryson farm in Aarschot ; a pre-war suitcase used by Betti Blaugrund’s family to store photos ; photos of the extended Blaugrund-Berlinski family, including photos of the Klajn-Berlinski family, the Berlinski-Frenkiel family and the Guzy-Berlinski family ; pre-war photos of family vacations at the Belgian coast ; wartime photos of Betti Blaugrund with Louis and Odile Ceulemans-Gryson who hid her at their farm in Aarschot ; post-war photos of Betti Blaugrund with her rescuers ; documents regarding Betti Blaugrund’s rescuers Louis and Odile Ceulemans-Gryson ; documents regarding Betti’s paternal uncle Szymon Blaugrund, his wife Charlotte Danzig and their children, taken from them upon arrival at the Dossin barracks in 1943 and returned by the Ministry of Public Health to Betti Blaugrund in 2000.
title: Betti Blaugrund. Collection