be-002157-kd 00951
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scope and content: This collection consists of a photo of and an interview with Jacques Schop. In his testimony Jacques talks about his childhood in the ghetto of Krakow, his father's clothing business in the ghetto, his life in hiding with the catholic Polish family outside of Krakow where Jacques stayed for several months, how his ‘rescuers’ tried to get rid of Jacques once the payments seized, Jacques’ reunion with his parents in the Krakow ghetto, their flight to Budapest in Hungary with the help of smugglers, their life in Budapest and Jacques’ post-war life in Israel, Canada and Belgium.
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has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/2022-12-31
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conditions of use: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
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archival history: Jacques Schop was interviewed in Antwerp by Dorien Styven, archivist at Kazerne Dossin, on 10 October 2022.
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
identifier: KD_00951
record resource extent: 1 interview (1 part - 63 minutes) and 1 photograph
type: RecordSet
related material: Jacques Schop was also interviewed by the Fondation Auschwitz in Brussels in 1996. This recording (YA/FA/122) is part of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University and can be viewed via their digital archive.
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biographical history: Jacques (Yanek) Schop was born in 1933 in Krakow, Poland. His parents were skilled textile workers. The Schop family still resided in Krakow when Nazi-Germany invaded Poland on 1st September 1939. In March 1941 a ghetto for Jews was created in Krakow. Jacques Schop, his parents and his older brother Ludwig were forced to relocate there. Jacques’ father opened a clothing factory in the ghetto where he employed about twelve Jewish women. As the Schop family and their employees made themselves useful repairing uniforms for the German army, they were – at least temporarily – exempted from deportation. Eight-year-old Jacques and his eleven-year-old brother Ludwig were also employed at their father’s factory to protect them. The boys received the uniforms and brought them to the workshop. The Schop family was able to make a living because of their business, which made them less vulnerable to the harsh ghetto life. The Schop family was held at the Krakow ghetto for one to two years. In that period of time, Jacques was smuggled out of the ghetto and was taken to a non-Jewish acquaintance of his father who had a cutlery shop just outside of Krakow. This catholic Polish family hid the boy in return for payments made by the Schop family. Jacques was able to maintain contact with his parents and brother in the Krakow ghetto, while he shared the sweets he received from his parents with the children of the family. In 1943 Jacques’ parents learned of an escape route from Poland to Hungary via a member of the Jewish police in the Krakow ghetto. The policeman offered to bring the Schop family in contact with the smugglers if the Schops would also pay the smugglers to take the policeman and his family. The Schop family agreed, but did not want to leave without Jacques. Fearing that the boy’s ‘rescuers’ would denounce them as they would lose the money for Jacques’ upkeep, Jacques’ parents asked the Polish catholic family to bring Jacques to Krakow for a visit. However, the catholic Po…
title: Jacques Schop. Collection
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