This year, the AVG-Carhif is 30 years old! 🎉 On this occasion, we offer you the favorites of the team throughout the year 2025!
Today, Léa, librarian-documentalist, presents her own: an album by Edith Rubinstein…
Léa has been a librarian-documentalist at the Carhif for just over 2 years. She mainly handles the encoding of books, posters, stickers, badges and other objects in our catalog that you can find online.
English translation of the video
AVG-Carhif: What is your favorite in the collections of the AVG-Carhif?
Léa: Today, I wanted to present you an album by Edith Rubinstein that is part of our collections. So not just a photo album.
AVG-Carhif: Can you talk to us a little more in detail about the object?
Léa: So, it’s an album, as I said, by Edith Rubinstein. First of all, Edith Rubinstein was a documentalist. Next to that, she was a creator and member of the first Women’s House in Brussels which was located at 79, rue du Méridien. And then, she also organized quite a few feminist trips that she organized from A to Z and of which we can find in the albums, as a result, photos of these trips including notably this one you see in Berlin. With all the friends.
AVG-Carhif: Why is it one of your favorites?
Léa: For me, it’s one of my favorites because it’s something we don’t often see in archive centers. At least, in my opinion. It’s something, quite… Quite impressive to see, in fact, how people, well like us now, made photo albums. A bit like Instagram at the time if you will. And so, as a result, photos, articles, put together, a little like scrapbooking. And so, it also allows for another visualization of these people or organizations other than archival documents or just photos scattered here and there.