Le Congo Belge et ses Coloniaux

BACKGROUND

This is a list of the officers of Jewish businessmen who lived in the Belgian Congo. These were predominantly Sephardic Jews from Rhodes, Turkey and Egypt. This list comes from the book Le Congo Belge et ses coloniaux: livre d�or (L�opoldville: Editions Stanley, 1955) This book was published in at least three editions in 1953, 1955 and 1959.

The Jewish community of the Belgian Congo was centered around Elisabethville (today Lumbumbashi) but the Jewish businessmen listed in the book lived all over the country.

DATABASE

This database includes 177 entries of Jewish businessmen that lived in the Belgian Congo.

The fields in the database are:

• Surname
• Given name
• Date of Birth
• Place of Birth
• Date of Death
• Citizenship
• Occupation
• Spouse
• All towns
• Book (the edition where the person was listed)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The information contained in this database was transcribed by Eric Feinstein. It was donated by Claude Benatar, administrator of the Jews of Rhodes: Family Memories & Heritage Facebook Group.

June 2025