Icek Glogowski

Icek Glogowski
Nationality	Belgian of Polish origin
Other names	Gros Jacques
Occupation	Night porter
Known for	Informant, Nazi collaborator

Icek (Jacques) Glogowski, nicknamed 'le gros Jacques' (Fat Jacques), was a Belgian Jew of Polish origin. Glogowski was an informant to the occupying authorities and Nazi collaborator in Belgium, responsible for the deportation of hundreds of Jews.[1][2]

Biography

Icek Glogowski lived in Uccle, on the rue Vanderkindere. He was a night porter in the neighbourhood close to the Brussels-North railway station. His wife, Eva Feldberg, and their three children, Elka (9 years old), Simon (7 years old), and Leon (5 years old), were arrested by the German Sicherheitspolizei on 3 September 1942 and taken to the Dossin barracks in Mechelen. They were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on 10 October 1942 with Transport XII and were all murdered. After the deportation of his wife and children, Glogowski began to work as a traitor and collaborator for the Sicherheitspolizei.[3][4]

Nazi collaborator

In the book 'From the Children's Home to the Gas Chamber: And how some avoided their fate' by Reinier Heinsman, two Holocaust survivors describe how their families were betrayed by Icek Glogowski.^[citation needed]

He was sentenced to death in absentia in 1947.[5]

References

1. Hollander, Ethan J. (2016-10-25). Hegemony and the Holocaust: State Power and Jewish Survival in Occupied Europe. Springer. p. 160. ISBN 978-3-319-39802-0.
2. Marion Schreiber, Rebelles silencieux, éditions Lannoo, 2000 - 316 pages
3. Insa Meinen, la Shoah en Belgique, traduit de l'allemand par Sylvaine Gillot-Soreau, éditions Renaissance du livre, 2012, 300p., ISBN 9782507050672, p.191 et sq
4. Maxime Steinberg, José Gotovitch, Otages de la terreur nazie: le Bulgare Angheloff et son groupe de Partisans juifs, Bruxelles, 1940-1943, Asp / Vubpress / Upa, 2007 - 114 pages
5. "The sad truth about Jewish informants during the Holocaust - opinion". The Jerusalem Post. 22 January 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2022.