be-002157-kd 00963
type: RecordSet
location of originals: Saskia Verachtert, private collection, Belgium
publication note: "Familie Tertaas-Huijsma", in: WEYNS Marc, Struikelstenen in Deurne. Stadskroniek, Antwerp, 2021, 124-125.
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
has beginning date: 1910-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
has or had holder: be-002157
has or had some members with language: nld
has or had subject: 800
has or had subject: 519
has record set type: Collection
history: On 5 January 2023, Saskia Verachtert, great-granddaughter of Hartog Tertaas and Clara Huijsman, kindly permitted Kazerne Dossin to digitize her family photo album. Contact between Saskia Verachtert and Kazerne Dossin was established via Marc Weyns, responsible for placing stolpersteine [stumbling stones] in Deurne, Antwerp, where the Tertaas-Huijsman family resided before and during the war.
history: Hartog Tertaas was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 5 July 1892 as the son of Mozes alias Maurice Tertaas and Rebecca Leeda. Hartog became a diamond cutter. On 15 May 1919, in Amsterdam, he married Clara Huijsman or Huysman who had been born on 10 February 1892 in the Dutch capital as the daughter of Machiel Huijsman and Jacomine Frankfort. As a young men Hartog had moved to Belgium, where he had lived at Vandenpeereboomstraat 32 in Borgerhout, right across from Clara’s family who had lived at number 29. During the First World War both the Tertaas family and the Huijsman family returned to the Netherlands where Hartog and Clara married. At the beginning of September 1919, newlyweds Hartog and Clara immigrated to Belgium and found living quarters at Sterlingerstraat 10 in Borgerhout. The following years they moved back and forth between Belgium and the Netherlands, as Hartog worked in the diamond industry in both Antwerp and Amsterdam. On 15 June 1920 a daughter named Rebecca was born in Borgerhout. Hartog and Clara’s second child, a son named Machiel, was born on 15 March 1923, also in Borgerhout, but sadly he passed away when he was 17 months old, in August 1924. Youngest daughter Jacomina was born in Deurne on 8 March 1926. When Nazi-Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940 the Tertaas-Huijsman family rented a residence at Te Couwelaerlei 31 in Deurne. Hartog continued to work as a diamond cutter, while Clara took care of the household. Eldest daughter Rebecca also worked in the diamond industry, while youngest daughter Jacomina still went to school. The Tertaas-Huijsman family obeyed the anti-Jewish decrees. They registered in the municipal Jewish register at the end of November 1940, they had their ID cards stamped with the red mark “Jood-Juif” in the Summer of 1941, they became members of the Association of Jews in Belgium in April 1942 and they wore the yellow star of David as of June 1942. Daughter Rebecca Tertaas was exempted from most of these measures …
identifier: KD_00963
record resource extent: 50 digitised images (49 photos and 1 document)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection contains: photos from the album of the Tertaas-Huijsman family, including photos of Hartog Tertaas and his wife Clara Huijsman (Huysman), of their daughters Rebecca and Jacomina Tertaas, of Rebecca Tertaas's husband Francois Verachtert and of their son Jozef Verachtert ; a congratulatory letter from the city of Antwerp to Rebecca Tertaas and Francois Verachtert on the occasion of their marriage
title: Tertaas-Huijsman family. Collection