be-002157-kd 00696
type: RecordSet
archival history: On 16 January 1996, Simon Krijn kindly donated the original documents in this collection to the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, predecessor of Kazerne Dossin.
biographical history: Salomon Krijn (sometimes Kryn) was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 8 February 1868, and became a diamond cutter. In 1894 he emigrated to the United States of America and settled in New York, where he married Bertha Dreyfuss on 29 December 1895. Bertha had been born in Hattersheim am Main, Germany, on 21 February 1872. In New York, Bertha gave birth to four children, two of whom survived their infancy: Hattie, born on 15 August 1899, and Alexander, born on 18 March 1903. The Krijn-Dreyfuss family then returned to Amsterdam, where a son named Reginald was born on 2 July 1906. In May 1909, Salomon and Bertha Krijn-Dreyfuss and their three children arrived in Antwerp, Belgium. They settled at Beukenstraat 61 in Borgerhout, where a daughter named Clementine was born on 3 October 1911. During the First World War the Krijn-Dreyfuss family returned to the Netherlands, where their youngest child Simon was born on 2 October 1914. All members of the Krijn-Dreyfuss family held Dutch nationality. Upon their return to Belgium in 1919 Salomon, Bertha and their five children first lived at Provinciestraat 237 in Antwerp. In 1927 they moved to Kroonstraat 198. All three sons were active in the diamond industry, while daughters Hattie and Clementine became hairdressers. On 26 January 1931, eldest son Alexander Krijn married the non-Jewish Belgian Maria Meuris. They divorced in 1934, after which Alexander left for South-Africa, where, on 2 April 1935, he married Frances Dagmar Cohen (born in Kimberley, South-Africa, on 13 April 1904). Mid-May 1935 the couple arrived in Belgium and moved in with Alexander’s parents and siblings who were then living at Plantin en Moretuslei 133 in Borgerhout. In February 1936, Alexander and Frances set up home at Van der Meydenstraat 36. On 5 August 1939 second son Reginald Krijn married Cecilia Huber (born on 12 November 1911 in Guliesti, Romania). After their wedding, the couple moved to Nottebohmstraat 33. On 10 May 1940 Nazi-Germany invaded B…
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has beginning date: 1941-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
has or had holder: be-002157
has or had some members with language: nld
has or had subject: 304
has record set type: Collection
identifier: KD_00696
record resource extent: 11 digitised imges (4 documents)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection contains: a letter from Clementine Krijn (Kryn) in Antwerp to her brother and sister-in-law Alexander and Frances Krijn-Cohen in New York, announcing the death of their father Salomon Krijn (Kryn), his struggle during the last days of his life and the state of their mother Bertha Dreyfuss, 1941 ; the envelope with censorship markings containing the letter regarding the death of Salomon Krijn (Kryn), 1941 ; an empty wartime envelope with censorship markings, used by Clementine Krijn (Kryn) in Antwerp to send a letter to her brother Alexander Krijn (Kryn) in New York ; two immediate post-war envelopes, used by Hattie Krijn (Kryn) in Menthon-Saint-Bernard, France, to send letters to her brother Alexander Krijn (Kryn) in New York.
title: Krijn-Dreyfuss family. Collection