Metadata: Luis Deak and Hélène Kalmar archives
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
- 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
