Salik family archives

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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 Famille Salik

Title:: Salik family archives

Title (official language):: Fonds Famille Salik

Creator/accumulator:: Salik family

Date(s):: 1960/1979

Date note:: 1960s-1970s

Extent:: 1 box

Scope and content:: This fonds notably contains publicity, originals and copies of documents related to the Établissements Salik firm, as well as press cuttings.

Administrative/biographical history:: Jacob Leiba (Jacques) Salik was born in Przemysl in 1903. He migrated to Charleroi in 1923. He started out as a peddler and trader of fabrics before expanding his business, eventually supplying textiles to the peddlers of the region. He opened his first fabric shop in Charleroi and soon other branches followed in Brussels and Liège. In 1940 he joined his relatives, exiled in France. He was arrested but released in Toulouse and he returned to Brussels before travelling to Nice and later Switzerland where he was interned in a refugee camp together with his family (1942). Jacques Salik and his relatives returned to Brussels in 1945. The company SA Établissements J. Salik flourished in the immediate post-war period, notably due to the importation and sale of military surplus of the American army. The company became one of the most important garment enterprises in Belgium in the 1950s and even in Europe (1960s). The SA Établissements J. Salik produced leather and suede clothing from 1953 onwards. The company was also known for its parkas, shirts and trousers, including the Salik jeans. A Salik factory existed in Quaregnon from 1962 to 1978. Jacques Salik was also a great philanthropist. He donated generously to many Jewish institutions, such as the retirement home l’Heureux Séjour, the Communauté orthodoxe de Bruxelles, the Communauté israélite de Bruxelles and the Centrale des œuvres sociales juives. He died in 1964. His son Pierre Salik took over the enterprise and expanded the business considerably. He continued the philanthropic work of his father and supported various Jewish organisations such as the Jewish Museum of Belgium, the Communauté israélite de Bruxelles, the CCLJ and the mikveh for women in the avenue Saint Augustin in Forest. (J. Versluys, "M. Pierre Salik. Grand patron d’une entreprise sans égale dans la confection belge", in Par-delà, no. 70, June 1969, pp. 6-12; E. Wulliger & J.-P. Schreiber, "Salik, Jacob Leiba dit Jacques", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, pp. 301-302.)

Access points: locations:: Brussels; Charleroi; Liege

Access points: persons/families:: Salik family

Subject terms:: Trade and commerce; Trade and commerce--Clothing and textile trade

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

Yerusha Network member:: State Archives of Belgium

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