be-002157-kd 00897
type: RecordSet
archival history: After Salomon Gemeiner was interviewed by historian Herman Vandormael for the book"Verborgen Oorlogsjare" Salomon donated the original five documents and four of the photos in this collection to the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, predecessor of Kazerne Dossin, via Vandormael on 12 April 2010. On 15 June 2022 Salomon Gemeiner's widow Liliane Van Nynatten and his daughter-in-law Sandra Vanmarsnille donated the original photo of the Gemeiner shop front as well as the original desk to Kazerne Dossin.
biographical history: Moise Josef Gemeiner was born in Krakow, Poland, on 30 March 1906 as the son of Salomon Gemeiner and Chewa Plessner. Moise became a furrier and immigrated to Belgium in 1929. While working in the fur trade he met the Polish modiste Rosa Lewy, who had been born in Borgerhout, Belgium, on 18 January 1911 as the daughter of Isaac Meyer Lewy and Iska Bjalkower. On 25 April 1933 they married at the municipality of Antwerp and on 14 May 1933 their religious marriage was blessed by rabbi Ekstein. Moise Josef, known as Joske, opened his own pelt shop at Provinciestraat 143 in Antwerp. On 31 October 1939 Rosa gave birth to their son Salomon Liber Gemeiner. The family still lived at Provinciestraat 143 when Nazi-Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940. Joske, Rosa and Salomon obeyed the anti-Jewish decrees. Joske registered his family in the municipal Jewish register on 20 December 1940. They all became members of the Association of Jews in Belgium on 29 April 1942 and Joske and Rosa wore the yellow star of David as of June 1942. On 14 July 1942 Joske Gemeiner was deported from the central train station in Antwerp to Northern France. He and over 2250 other Jewish men from Belgium had been summoned by the Belgian Arbeidsambt (National Work Bureau) to go work in Northern France as slave laborers for Organisation Todt, the German enterprise building the Atlantic Wall. Joske was held at the Calais and at the Isques labour camps before being deported from Northern France to Auschwitz-Birkenau via Transport XVII on 31 October 1942. Although he was selected to perform forced labor upon arrival and although the number 72514 was tattooed on his arm, he did not survive. Rosa Lewy and her son Salomon Gemeiner stayed behind in Antwerp. On 26 August 1942 Rosa heard that her parents Isaac Meyer Lewy and Iska Bjalkower had been picked up. The couple had received a work order (Arbeitseinsatzbefehl) and was being taken to the Dossin barracks. Rosa rushed over to the central train station where…
publication note: GEMEINER Salomon,"Van Krakau naar Auschwit", in: Herman VANDORMAEL, Verborgen Oorlogsjaren. Ondergedoken Joodse kinderen getuigen, Tielt, 2009.
accruals: No further accruals are to be expected
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
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has beginning date: 1933-01-01
has end date: 1951-12-31
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: 112
has record set type: Collection
identifier: KD_00897
record resource extent: 18 digitised images (1 object, 5 photos and 5 documents)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection contains: the wedding booklet of Moise Josef alias Joske Gemeiner and Rosa Lewy, 1933 ; three fake ID cards issued to Rosa Lewy during the war under the false names Virginie Stevens (Antwerp), Coleta Avezals (Schoten) and Anna Opdebeeck (Antwerp) ; card for a beneficiary of the status of political prisoner issued to Salomon Gemeiner as beneficiary of his father Moise Josef Gemeiner, 1951 ; five pre-war and wartime photos, including a photo of the pelt shop run by Moise Josef Gemeiner at Provinciestraat 143 in Antwerp, a photo of Rosa Lewy and her rescuer misses Vandoren and two photos of Salomon Gemeiner with his father Moise Josef Gemeiner and/or his maternal grandparents Isaac Meyer Lewy and Iska Bjalkower ; a handcrafted desk used by Moise Josef Gemeiner in his pelt shop to do his administration
title: Gemeiner-Lewy family. Collection