be-002157-kd 00956
location of originals: Kazerne Dossin Research Centre
scope and content: This collection consists of an interview with Jeanne Glibert. In her testimony Jeanne talks about her youth, the beginning of the war as she fled with friends, living under occupation in Antwerp, traitors who snitched on Jews, Jewish youth friends Betti Van Hamberg, Claudine Van Hamberg and Irène Brandes, and about Jewish links after the war.
archival history: Jeanne Glibert was interviewed in Kontich by Veerle Vanden Daelen, Kazerne Dossin, on 6 December 2022.
biographical history: Jeanne Glibert, born on 1 March 1921, is the daughter of Roger Gaston Glibert and Anna Joanna Maria Mermans. Roger Glibert himself was born on 14 September 1885 as the son of Adolphe Glibert and Odila Schotte. Roger Glibert worked as an industrialist in the Antwerp harbour, namely as a shipowner. Anna Mermans was born on 24 July 1889 as the daughter of Charles August Mermans and Joana Maria Deckers. On 10 July 1917, Roger and Anna got married in Antwerp. Before the second world war, the family lived in a manor in Kontich named Cottage d’Hélèneveld. Before them the Havenith family lived there. Their son Charles Havenith (1852-1909) was a banker. He married Hélène Van Put. One of their children was Hélène Havenith (1885-1912). Hélène married Robert Meeùs (1882-1958) at Kontich in 1907 but died at the age of 26. They had four children: Frédérique, Charles, Hippolyte and the youngest Hélène Meeùs. Jeanne Glibert lived in the attached gardener's house where the dairy production of (Laiterie) Héléneveld used to be. The Lyceum in Antwerp is where Jeanne Glibert went to school. Before the second world war began, the Glibert family already had moved to Antwerp to a house at Marialei 44 next to the military hospital of Antwerp in the so called Groen Kwartier area. At the start of the war, Jeanne Glibert was 19 years old and in the second year of her studies as a physiotherapist in Brussels. During the first 18 days of the war, Jeanne Glibert fled with friends until capitulation. Among other things they slept in the straw on a French farmstead. After this period, and when lessons were resumed, Jeanne Glibert kept up studying throughout the war. Meanwhile the Cottage d’Hélèneveld in Kontich, where her grandmother still lived, was seized by the Germans for the housing of German military men. The grandmother of Jeanne Glibert came to live with her at Marialei 44. There they moved most things to the basement where they mostly lived during the war. In the house next to Jeanne lived…
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physical characteristics and technical requirements: Video length: 42:28
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title: Jeanne Glibert. Collection
identifier: KD_00956
conditions of use: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
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location of copies: Kazerne Dossin Research Centre
type: RecordSet
record resource extent: 1 interview
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/598
has or had some members with language: nld
date: 6 December 2022