be-002157-kd 01029
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/868
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1930-01-01
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/556
has or had some members with language: fra
type: RecordSet
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/2007-12-31
related material: The Micheline Wierzchowski collection (KD_01030) contains documents on Harry Zeiger's wife Micheline Wierzchowski.
identifier: KD_01029
location of originals: Dora Zeiger-Weinberg, private collection, Antwerp
has or had some members with language: nld
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/be-002157-kd_01029/acquisitions/1
title: Harry Zeiger. Collection
scope and content: This collection contains: a pre-war photo of Mozes and Ruchel Zeiger-Stern with their children Jakob and Harry (Henryk) Zeiger at De Keyserlei in Antwerp, ca. 1930 ; a pre-war photo of the Zeiger-Stern family with relatives or friends at the beach, ca. 1930 ; a group photo of the Antwerp branch of the Bnei Akiva youth movement, 1938 ; two studio portraits of Jakob Zeiger ; a wartime foreigners’ identity card issued by the Belgian authorities to Harry (Henryk) Zeiger, 1940 ; certificates of good conduct issued by the Antwerp municipality to Jakob Zeiger, Mozes Zeiger and Ruchel Stern, 1941 ; a handwritten note, possibly a receipt or instructions for the human smuggler who drove the Zeiger-Stern family to the French-Suisse border, 1942 ; photos of Jewish men at work in Switzerland, 1942-1945 ; photos of Harry (Henryk) Zeiger, Jakob Zeiger, Mozes Zeiger and Ruchel Stern in Switzerland, 1942-1945 ; a postcard and letters sent by Jakob and Harry (Henryk) Zeiger in Switzerland to their parents Mozes and Ruchel Zeiger-Stern held elsewhere in Switzerland, 1943 ; a letter of condolence sent by friends of Jakob Zeiger to Jakob’s parents Mozes and Ruchel Zeiger-Stern after Jakob’s drowning, 1943 ; a receipt for the tombstone of Jakob Zeiger, 1944 ; post-war photos of the tombstone of Jakob Zeiger in Switzerland ; certificates issued by the Suisse government regarding the stay of the Zeiger-Stern family in Switzerland, 2000.
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had some members with language: deu
accruals: No further accruals are to be expected.
has record set type: Collection
has or had some members with language: ita
history: All documents and photos in this collection were saved by Harry Zeiger. Upon his death, the items were passed on to his daughter Dora Zeiger-Weinberg. On 6 June 2024, Dora and her son Charles Weinberg kindly permitted Kazerne Dossin to digitise all documents and photos from their family archive.
history: Henryk alias Harry Zeiger was born in Krakow, Poland, on 12 June 1925 as the youngest son of Mozes Zeiger (born on 13 March 1895 in Debica, also Dembits, Poland) and Ruchel Stern (born on 31 May 1893 in Krakow). Henryk’s parents Mozes and Ruchel had met via a brother of Ruchel, when Mozes worked for his dairy delivering service in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, in 1916. Mozes and Ruchel religiously married in Krakow after the First World War and settled down in the city. Their eldest son Jakob was born there on 3 February 1923, followed by Harry two years later. At the time of Harry’s birth, his father Mozes was no longer in Krakow. Mozes had emigrated to Antwerp, Belgium, in December 1924, where he found employment in the diamond industry. When Harry was ten months old, his mother Ruchel obtained the necessary papers for her and the two children to follow Mozes to Belgium. The family first settled at Gitschotellei in Berchem, where Mozes and Ruchel officially married on 28 December 1926. Mozes became an experienced diamond cutter, working for renown diamond merchants such as Chaim Wanderer and the Langer family. In 1931 Harry started attending classes at Tachkemoni. His older brother Jacob was a pupil at the Jesode Hatora school as of 1929, switching to an Antwerp public school after three years. Meanwhile, the family changed addresses within Antwerp several times, living for a while above the Bonbony sports goods store run by the Borisewitz family at Simonsstraat 42. Pauline Bernstein-Borisewitz took Harry to the Antwerp zoo on several occasions, which was a real treat for the young boy. In his free time, Harry was a member of the Bne Akiva youth movement. When he was 14 years old, he started secondary school, taking classes at the trade school at Van Aerdtstraat. By that time, eldest brother Jakob was working in the diamond business of their father Mozes. When Nazi-Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May 1940, the Zeiger-Stern family lived at Plantin en Mortetuslei 130…
record resource extent: 63 digitised images (1 audiovisual testimony in two parts, 18 documents and 33 photos)
conditions of use: Contact Kazerne Dossin Research Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
has or had holder: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/institutions/be-002157
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/304