Metadata: Leszczynski 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 Leszczynski
- Title:
- Leszczynski archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Leszczynski
- Creator/accumulator:
- Leszczynski, Edouard
- Date(s):
- 1959/1983
- Language:
- French
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 1 moving box
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains 12 rolls with architectural plans (on tracing paper), school notebooks of Isaac Leszczynski (Edouard Leszczynski’s father), handwritten and typed notes in Yiddish (1959), files related to the succession of the Leszczynski family, identity documents, diplomas, drawings, plans and sketches for stands and bureaus, as well as photographs.
- Archival history:
- This fonds was donated to the Jewish Museum of Belgium by S. Hirschhorn, the niece of Pauline Leszczynski-Kapelovitz, Edouard Leszczynski’s widow.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Edouard Leszczynski, better known as ‘Stany’, was an architect and interior decorator. He settled at avenue Télémaque 8 in Forest. He obtained a degree from the Institut d’enseignement technique des Industries et du bois, de l’ammeublement, de la décoration intérieure et de la peinture in Brussels in 1969. In 1952 Leszczynski married Pauline Kapelovitz (born in Metz, in 1924). (Fonds Leszczynski (BE / MJB / Fonds Leszczynski))
- Access points: persons/families:
- Leszczynski family
- Leszczynski, Isaac
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- A. Cherton, Inventaire provisoire, July 2007.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
