us-005578-irn512786-irn512787
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Annette (now Linzer) and Marguerite Lederman (now Mishkin) are the daughters of Mordka and Rajala Zylberszac Lederman, a Jewish couple from Łódź, Poland, who had moved in the 1930s to Belgium, then to France, and then back to Belgium. On October 31, 1942, Annette and Margo's father was deported to Auschwitz. Their mother placed the girls in hiding with the van Buggenhout family in Rumst, Belgium. Annette Linzer (née Lederman), 1940-1998) was born on 5 June 1940 in Saint-Gaudens, France to Mordechai (Mordka, 1906-1942) and Reizla (née Zylberszac, 1909-1944) Lederman. Her parents were from Łódź, Poland, but had lived in Belgium and France during the 1930s. In 1941 the family moved back to Brussels, Belgium and Annette’s sister Marguerite (later Marguerite Mishkin, also known as Margo) was born on 8 May 1941. When the round-ups of Jews began in Brussels, Annette's mother made contact with the Belgian underground through a Catholic priest. Annette was placed in hiding with a Christian family, but she was so homesick that her rescuer returned her to her parents. On October 31, 1942, Annette's father was deported to Auschwitz where he perished. Her mother then resolved to hide both girls with a Christian family. She made contact with Clementine (née van Buggenhout) and Eduard Frans, who lived in the village of Rumst, half-way between Brussels and Antwerp. The Frans’s had three older children. Their two sons, Roger and Sylvan, were away most of the time in forced labor battalions, but their teenage daughter, Lydia, helped care for the Lederman sisters. While Annette and Marguerite were in hiding, their mother was deported to Auschwitz on the next to last transport from Belgium in 1944 where she perished. After learning that both parents had been killed, Clementine and Eduard Frans sought to adopt the girls, but their village priest would not sanction the adoption since there was no formal indication that this would have been the wish of the parents. When it was determine…
has beginning date: 1938-01-01
has end date: 1950-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: yid
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 701
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn512787
is or was included in: us-005578-irn512786
record resource extent: folder 1
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Marguerite and Annette Lederman and their family's experiences during the time period of the Holocaust.
title: Marguerite Lederman Mishkin papers