be-002157-kd 00601
accruals: No further accruals are to be expected.
related material: This collection contains the documents confiscated from Natan Rozenblum upon his arrival at the Dossin barracks in 1944. These items were part of the relics collection (KD_00005) until they were returned to the Rozenblum family in 1999.
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1981-12-31
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1920-01-01
title: Rozenblum-Suknik family. Collection
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/203
has or had some members with language: pol
archival history: In 2020 David Rozenblum, son of Charles Rozenblum and grandson of Natan and Curtla Rozenblum-Suknik, kindly permitted Kazerne Dossin to digitise his family archive.
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Digitally stored at Kazerne Dossin as collection KD_00601
has or had some members with language: lat
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/1095
scope and content: This collection contains: documents regarding Natan Rozenblum’s migration to Belgium, including his Polish passport ; two tailor’s sketchbooks containing drawings for clothing ; pre-war, wartime and post-war photos of the Rozenblum-Suknik family, some of which are pasted into a photo album, including a photo of Charles Rozenblum’s first communion and photos of relatives in Poland ; documents confiscated from Natan Rozenblum upon arrival at the Dossin barracks, including a real and a fake ID card ; a bible and other catholic items such as prayer cards obtained by Charles Rozenblum during his time in hiding ; copies of the baptism register containing Charles Rozenblum’s real name ; post-war documents regarding the resistance activities of Natan Rozenblum who worked for the Milices Patriotiques as well as for the Jewish Defence Committee ; medals and certificates accorded posthumously to Natan Rozenblum for his resistance activities ; multiple post-war testimonies written by Curtla Suknik, documenting the resistance work done by her husband Natan Rozenblum ; a postwar newspaper in Yiddish containing an article on Natan Rozenblum ; photos and documents of camp survivor Szyja Suknik.
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/1226
has or had some members with language: yid
identifier: KD_00601
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/be-002157-kd_00601/acquisitions/1
biographical history: Naftali alias Natan Rozenblum was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 15 July 1900 as the son of Moszek Rozenblum and Ruchla Schmieleski. Presumably, at the age of 14, Naftali became an apprentice tailor. As of 1918 he was a member of the communist party and he became involved in activities of the tailors trade union. In 1923 (or 1925) he moved to Vilno to work for the communist party. Six months after his arrival he was imprisoned at Brest-Litovsk where he was held for several years. In 1929, again wanted by the police, Natan decided to leave for western Europe. Natans political activities as well as poverty and antisemitism in Poland made him leave his homeland. On 15 April 1930 Natan Rozenblum officially arrived in Belgium and settled at Rue des Dominicains 6 in Brussels. He thus followed his beloved Curtla Suknik who had been born in Warsaw, Poland, on 27 July 1902 as the daughter of Josek Suknik and Myriam Szmidek. On 25 July 1929 Curtla had joined her brother Szyja (born on 28 September 1900 in Warszaw, Poland) who lived in Belgium since 1926. Upon migration to Belgium she declared to be a seamstress since she was officially supposed to move in with Szyja at Rue des Bouchers 71 in Brussels in order to work for him. Natan and Curtla married at the Brussels town hall on 3 January 1931. They moved into an apartment at Rue du Télégraphe 16 in Brussels where they had their own tailoring workshop. On 26 July 1931 their son Charles was born. Six weeks later the family moved to Rue des Camions 4 in Schaerbeek, Brussels. Natan remained politically active and frequented Jewish communist circles as well as veterans of the Spanish civil war, and attempted to join Jewish tailoring workers in a union. Natan also remained a member of the communist party and Secours Rouge (later Solidarité and Gezert). When Nazi Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940 the Rozenblum-Suknik family lived at Rue Gaucheret 73 in Schaerbeek, Brussels. Natan, as a Polish citizen, was drafted into the Polish a…
has or had some members with language: fra
location of originals: David Rozenblum, Private collection, Belgium
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/112
location of copies: Digital copy available as collection KD_00601 at Kazerne Dossin. A copy was also delivered to the Musée de la Résistance de Belgique [Belgian Resistance Museum] in Anderlecht.
record resource extent: 332 digitised images (62 documents, 1 newspaper, 85 photos and 4 objects)
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/519
conditions of use: David Rozenblum, Private collection, Belgium
has record set type: Collection
has or had holder: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/institutions/be-002157
type: RecordSet
has or had some members with language: nld
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/904