us-005578-irn560461-irn560462
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physical characteristics and technical requirements: Newspaper; Vol. No. 8; 24 p. ; 34 cm. Large, official government gazette printed on tan newsprint as a folio with 12 leaves. The information on each page is printed in two columns: one French, and one Dutch. The Belgian coat of arms and the publication information are printed on the top front. back, bottom right, handwritten, pencil : } (a single bracket around 4 lines of text)
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biographical history: Norbert Orgler was born on December 11, 1899, in Cologne, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Abraham and Henriette Kirsch Orgler. He had five brothers, Leopold (b. 1894), Israel Jacob (b.1896), Sally (b.1898), Josef (b.1901), and the fifth and youngest brother, who died of pneumonia in 1932. Norbert owned a service shop in Cologne, and was married to a Catholic woman, Auguste Schwartz Orgler (b.1901.) Israel married Käthe, Leopold married Ettel Pollak, and Josef, a musician, married Dorthea Pauly. On June 24, 1929, Norbert and Auguste’s son, Siegfried, was born. On January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and the Nazi regime passed legislation to disenfranchise the Jewish population. Norbert’s store was destroyed during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. Three days later Norbert, Auguste, and Siegfried left Germany. They settled in Antwerp, Belgium, along with Leopold, Israel, Josef, and their families. Sally remained in Cologne. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, beginning World War II, and in May 1940, they invaded Belgium. The Belgian government considered all male German citizens enemy aliens, and required them to report to the authorities. Although Norbert and his brothers had been stripped of their citizenship in 1935, they were still required to report, and when they did so, they were arrested. On May 12, 1940, they were deported to Saint Cyprien internment camp in southern France. In June, France signed an armistice with Germany, and southern France fell under the control of the newly established collaborationist French government based out of Vichy. Many non-Jewish Germans were released from the camps. As Jews, Norbert, Israel, Josef, and Leopold remained at Saint Cyprien. Not long after Norbert had been deported, the authorities asked if Auguste wanted to divorce him for being Jewish, and when she refused they began to persecute her and Siegfried by restricting their rights, limiting access to resources, and treating them crue…
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archival history: The newspaper was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Siegfried Orgler, the son of Norbert and Auguste Orgler.
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record resource extent: overall: Height: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
date: 1950 January 08
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scope and content: Edition of the Belgian Official Gazette from January 8, 1950, recording the legal declaration of death for Norbert Orgler, a Jewish German shop owner. Norbert, his wife Auguste, and son Siegfried fled Cologne, Germany, for Antwerp, Belgium, days after his store was destroyed during Kristallnacht in early November 1938. Three of Norbert’s brothers, Leopold, Israel Jacob, and Josef, also fled to Antwerp with their families. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium, and Norbert and his brothers were considered enemy aliens and were arrested by Belgian authorities. They were deported to Saint Cyprien internment camp in southern France. Following the outbreak of a disease in camp, they were transferred to Gurs internment camp, where Leopold escaped. From April to September 1942, Norbert was transported to several internment and transit camps where he was a forced laborer. On September 7, 1942, Norbert was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. In early 1945, he was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany where he perished. Auguste, who was not Jewish, refused to divorce Norbert, and in February 1941, she and Siegfried were included in a larger group of Jewish people transported to Kwaadmechelen in the province of Limburg. Many in this group performed forced labor, but the authorities were not sure what to do with Siegfried and Auguste, so after 6 months they were sent back to Antwerp. Norbert’s brothers, Leopold and Sally, survived the war. His brothers, Josef and Israel Jacob, were deported to several internment camps and killed.
title: Belgisch Staatsblad Belgian Official Gazette, January 8, 1950 Postwar Belgian gazette recording the death of a German Jewish concentration camp prisoner