Arthur Langerman

Arthur Eugène Langerman false Swarzberg, known as Arthur Langerman, born in Borgerhout in Belgium, is a Belgian diamantaire. He is known for having gathered of one of the largest private collections of antisemitic images in the world. The collection constitutes the Arthur Langerman Archive for the Study of Visual Antisemitism (ALAVA) at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. Biography His father Salomon Langerman false Swarzberg was a furrier born in Krakow in 1907. His Mother Zysla Brandla Blajwas was a milliner born in Warsaw. Both of them settled in Belgium in 1926, and married each other in 1941. They were arrested on March 28, 1944, and detained at the Mechelen transit camp, then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by Transport XXV on May 19, 1944. Arthur was saved from deportation by being placed at the nursery of the AJB (Association des Juifs en Belgique) in Uccle, and then transferred to the nursery of the Baron de Castro street in Etterbeek. The AJB network of institutions for children was controlled by the Gestapo. The children were saved from a roundup organized a few days before the Liberation of Belgium. The Nazis sent Zysla to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was made to work at the kitchens, which helped her survive. She returned in 1945. Her husband would never come back and had probably died in the spring of the same year in the subcamp of Flossenbürg at Plattling. The Nazis had murdered at least 18 close relatives of Arthur Langerman.