Luis Deak and Hélène Kalmar archives - European Jewish Archives Portal

Collection description

Collection

Country:: Belgium

Holding institution:: Jewish Museum of Belgium

Holding institution (official language):: Musée Juif de Belgique

Postal address:: Miniemenstraat 21 / Rue des Minimes 21, 1000 Bruxelles

Phone number:: +32 (0)2 512 19 63

Web address:: http://www.new.mjb-jmb.org

Email:: info@mjb-jmb.org

Reference number:: JM-Brussels-Fonds Luis Deak et Hélène Kalmar

Title:: Luis Deak and Hélène Kalmar archives

Title (official language):: Fonds Luis Deak et Hélène Kalmar

Creator/accumulator:: Deak, Louis; Kalmar, Hélène

Date(s):: 1919/1961

Extent:: 1 box

Scope and content:: This fonds notably contains photos, passports, identity papers and correspondence. (see box 190, and the pictures in the binder XXXII personnalités as well as binder XVI).

Administrative/biographical history:: Ludivit “Louis” Deak (1895-1958) was born in Kolozsvar (Hungary) in 1895. His wife, Ilona “Hélène” Kalmar was born in Becs (Hungary) in 1897. They married in Bratislava/Pressburg in 1922. Louis Deak had a degree in medicine, surgery, tropical medicine and childbirth. He practised medicine in the Congo from 1937 onwards, first as a physician for the Forminière company in the Kasai and then in Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi) from 1941 onwards. He obtained Belgian nationality in 1951. Hélène Kalmer was naturalised in 1952. Louis Deak died in Elisabethville in 1958. (Fonds Louis Deak et Hélène Kalmar (BE / MJB / Fonds Louis Deak et Hélène Kalmar))

Access points: persons/families:: Deak, Luis; Kalmar, Hélène

Subject terms:: Correspondence; Health and medical matters; Migration; Migration--Immigration; Passports and visas; Photographs; Vital records

Access, restrictions:: Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.

Finding aids:: There is a preliminary inventory of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.

Yerusha Network member:: State Archives of Belgium

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