be-002157-kd 00666
type: RecordSet
archival history: On 5 January 2022, Eli Ringer kindly permitted Kazerne Dossin to digitise one hundred and thirty-three photographs and one hundred and twenty documents in this collection.
biographical history: Eli Ringer, born on 30 May 1943, was the son of Salomon Ringer and Liane Pappenheim. Salomon, born on 8 February 1913, and his parents got their hands on Paraguayan identification papers on 21 October 1942. Liane was born on 18 November 1911. She and Salomon married on 15 April 1935 and had four children. Salomon, Liane and their family were orthodox Jews. Eli’s grandparents, Chaim Ringer born on 19 January 1883 and Ettel Langerman born on 1 November 1881, originated from Krakow in Poland. They had arrived in Belgium in the early 1920’s. Salomon was their only son, and after the war also their only heir. Chaim and Ettel were arrested on 11 December 1942 and deported from the Dossin barracks to Auschwitz-Birkenau with Transport XIX on 15 January 1943. Having been imprisoned on 20 February 1943 by the Nazis in Antwerp, because of the Paraguayan identification papers the family could get, Salomon was treated more as a political prisoner. Salomon has been in seven or eight internierungslager, with his first transport dating from 20 February 1943. By the end of the war, Salomon got to go from the camp in Bergen-Belsen to Laufen, to Tittmoning Bayern for two years to Stalag and through Switzerland because of a prisoner exchange with Nazi-Germany. After this he had to go to a UNRRA camp in Algeria on 20 February 1945. Because he did not hold Belgian nationality, his return to Belgium did not go very easy and required much paperwork. Salomon became one of the few Jewish recognized political prisoners in Belgium. He was imprisoned for almost two years. Salomon’s wife Liane Pappenheim stayed in Belgium with their children. Two of them, Rachel Ringer born on 15 November 1937 and Anna Ringer born on 18 November 1938, were hidden for several months in the province Limburg with the family Juchtmans. Mr. Juchtmans helped Jews with blankets in the winter of 1940 and with cooking equipment. He was a leader at the Belgian scouting and worked as an engineer in the mines. Eli’s brother…
location of copies: Kazerne Dossin Research Centre
other finding aids: Wallenborn, Hélène. Reconnaître et réparer: La restitution des biens spoliés oux Juifs en Belgique. Brussels: Fondation de la mémoire contemporaine, 2017.
related material: KD_00943: U.S. Private David (“Doov”) Stein World War II Letters from Antwerp. Collection
accruals: No further accruals are to be expected
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
conditions of use: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
date: prewar-postwar
has or had holder: be-002157
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had some members with language: nld
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had subject: 598
has or had subject: 868
has or had subject: 519
has or had subject: 112
has record set type: Collection
identifier: KD_00666
record resource extent: 120 digitised documents (9 certificates, 1 passport, travel pass and shopping booklet, 2 identity cards, 93 letters, 1 transport order, 1 membership card, 2 decisions, 1 statement, 1 minute, 2 wedding texts, 1 bulletin and 1 article) and 130 digitised images (125 photos)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection contains one hundred and thirty-three photographs containing the Ringer family, David Stein, Malvine Babad and others, three birth certificates, one Paraguayan passport for Salomon Ringer, one identity card, travel pass and shopping booklet of the UNRRA Jeanne d'Arc Refugee Centre, forty-two letters concerning the return from the UNRRA Jeanne d'Arc Refugee Centre, one letter from the Swiss Embassy about release from Internierungslager Laufen, one letter from the Paraguayan Consulate about release from lager Bergen-Belsen, three letters about the internment in Tittmoning, one letter to the commander in Spittal, one transport order to bring Salomon Ringer from Algeria to Belgium, one membership card of the Association of Jewish Political Prisoners, two decisions of the Brussels Acceptance Commission on the status of political prisoners, four letters concerning the amount of money to which Salomon Ringer is entitled as a political prisoner, one identity card of the International Committee of the Red Cross for the free postal service of prisoners of war, three registration certificates in population registers, one certificate of civil status and one civic integration certificate, nine letters or stipulations concerning the inheritance of Chaim and Ettel Ringer-Langerman, one invalidity certificate and one letter concerning a pension for Salomon with invalidity certificate, one letter from the Great Rabbi of Belgium concerning the safety of Liane Pappenheim, one statement Commission of Public Welfare of Borgerhout about Liane Pappenheim coming to bring special food to Jewish hospital patients, three letters between Salomon and Liane, sixteen copied letters to Salomon's friends, one meeting minute of Machsike Hadass, one letter about a large loan in Yugoslavia, three letters about the Diamond Club, one birthday card from a twin, one bulletin from the Union of Conscientious Objectors and Deportees, one letter from the Central Israelite Consistory, two Hebre…
title: Eli Ringer. Collection