Metadata: Salik family 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 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: 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
