Metadata: Sam Topor 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 Sam Topor
- Title:
- Sam Topor archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Sam Topor
- Creator/accumulator:
- Topor, Samuel
- Date(s):
- 1959/1991
- Extent:
- 4 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains documents produced by the Union des Déportés Juifs et Ayants-Droit de Belgique (UDJADB), an organisation of which Sam Topor was the secretary, such as photos, minutes of meetings, lists of members, etc. (See boxes 207 and 208, 249 and 250)
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Samuel Topor (1925-1997) was a furrier by profession. After the Second World War he was the secretary of the Union des Déportés Juifs et Ayants-Droit de Belgique. He represented the organisation in the Zionist Federation of Belgium. Topor was also active in other organisations, such as the Brussels section of the Histadrut Haoved Hatzioni (as secretary), the Zionist youth movement Darkenou (as president) and the Comité d’Action pour Israël. Topor was one of the founders and later member of the board of the CCOJB. In 1995 Sam Topor received the decoration of Knight in the Order of Leopold. (Fonds Sam Topor (BE / MJB / Fonds Sam Topor)
- Access points: locations:
- Brussels
- Access points: persons/families:
- Topor, Sam
- 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
