Precious prints. Collection
Extent and Medium
over 43,000 images (over 900 books and leaflets)
Creator(s)
- Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, predecessor of Kazerne Dossin
Biographical History
The Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (JMDR), predecessor of Kazerne Dossin, opened its doors in 1996. The museum was the result of a collaboration between the Jewish Central Consistory of Belgium and the Association of Jewish Deportees. Sir Natan Ramet, survivor of Auschwitz, the death marches and Dachau, was appointed president of the new museum. Apart from its commemorative, museological and educational assignment, the JMDR also had a historical assignment : to digitise all archival collections related to the Holocaust in Belgium and to make these documents available to the public. In 2008 the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance was reorganised and became, in 2012, Kazerne Dossin - Memorial, Museum and Documentation Center on Holocaust and Human Rights.
Archival History
The Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance was inaugurated in 1996 at the site of the former SS-Sammellager Mecheln, better known as the Dossin barracks. From the start the JMDR collected precious prints on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, published before 1950. These publications were catalogued and stored as a collection, separate from the reference library.
Acquisition
Private donations, ongoing acquisition
Scope and Content
This collection contains precious prints such as pamphlets, posters, books and other types of publications published before 1950. The topics include pre-war Jewish life, anti-Semitism, ideologies of various political movements, biographies of camp survivors, commemoration of resistance movements, German organisations such as the SS, post-war trials and war crimes. The publications do not only focus on Belgium, but also include publications from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the United States.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
Finding Aids
Item descriptions were drafted by dr. Laurence Schram.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital copy available as collection KD_00002 at Kazerne Dossin
Subjects
- Antisemitism
- Hiding
- Extermination
- Deportations
- Liberation
- Resistance
- Anti-Jewish measures
- German Occupation
- SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks)
- Prewar Jewish life
- Trials
- Religious life
- Propaganda
- Politics
- Political prisoners
- Perpetrators
- Nazi apparatus
- Jewish organisations
- Holocaust survivors
- Deportees
- Concentration camps
- Commemoration
- Art
- Armed resistance
- Antisemitism
Kostbare drukwerken.
Extent and Medium
463 stukken (3353 digitale beelden).
Creator(s)
- Kazerne Dossin – Memoriaal, Museum en Documentatiecentrum over Holocaust en Mensenrechten
Scope and Content
Deze verzameling bevat affiches, pamfletten en publicaties van uiteenlopende aard. Ze zijn zowel afkomstig uit de collecties van andere instellingen als van giften van particulieren aan de Kazerne Dossin.
Finding Aids
Er zijn gedetailleerde toegangen voorhanden; opzoekingen gebeuren echter best in samenwerking met de archivarissen.
Process Info
The EHRI project, in cooperation with the National Archives of Belgium, selected Holocaust-relevant archival descriptions from the finding aid G. DESMET & P. FALEK-ALHADEFF, P.-A. TALLIER (dir.), Bronnen voor de geschiedenis van de Joden en het Jodendom in België (19de-20ste eeuw) - Sources pour l'histoire des populations juives et du judaïsme en Belgique (19e-20e siècles), Brussel, Algemeen Rijksarchief, 2015. Please note that this guide focuses on Belgium-related archival materials in the respective descriptions. The guide was co-funded by Belspo - Belgian Science Policy Office and Yerusha project.
Gertjan Desmet