Zucker-Fischer archives

Collection description

Scope and content:: This fonds contains correspondence, photos of Maurice Fischer, telegrams and identity papers. (See box 102)

Administrative/biographical history:: Joseph Zucker (1910-1999) was born in Antwerp in 1910. He studied engineering at the Université de Liège. He made a brilliant career in the automotive industry. Zucker married Théa Fischer, the daughter of Eva and Max Fischer, born in Scheveningen (the Netherlands) in 1920. During the Second World War, Joseph volunteered for the Belgian armed forces in Great Britain; he played a key role in organising transports and supplies. His wife was also a volunteer for the Belgian army in Great Britain, working in civil defence and Radio Welfare. She became active in Jewish associational life after the war, notably serving as president of the Conseil International des Femmes Juives. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Zucker, Joseph dit Joe", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, p. 371; E. Wulliger & J.-P. Schreiber, "Fischer, Max; Fischer Eva née Goldstein", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, pp. 109-110.)

Subject terms:: Correspondence; Jewish self-defence and resistance; Personal records; Photographs; Professions; Professions--Engineers

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.