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
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.
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
- 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