Alexandre Gourary. Collection
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Extent and Medium
150 digitised images (29 documents, 84 photos, 3 magazines, 5 precious prints and 3 objects)
Creator(s)
- Alexandre Gourary
Scope and Content
This collection contains three issues of « La Voix Internationale de la Résistance » ; two photos of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen ; seven photos of tombstones of Jewish resistance fighters who were killed in action or executed and were buried at the Tir National (National shooting range) in Brussels ; 74 photos and photonegatives depicting the armed Mouvement national belge (MNB) liberating Antwerp, protecting the harbour and undertaking military exercises ; a Sten machine gun and a hand grenade used by Alexandre Gourary while guarding the port of Antwerp ; a jacket worn by Alexandre Gourary as a member of the MNB ; twenty-seven documents including several post-war membership cards of the MNB, certificates proving Alexandre Gourary’s involvement in underground press, post-war correspondence between major Wilhelm von Hahn on the one hand and Elisabeth Trainin and Arthur Kohn on the other discussing Von Hahn’s anti-Nazi actions, Alexandre Gourary’s work permit for the retirement home Scheut in Anderlecht, and post-war documents of the Fédération Nationale des Anciens Combattants et Résistants Juifs de Belgique.
Accruals
No further accruals are to be expected.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
The Stern submachine gun (KD_00065_A000951) and the hand grenade (KD_00065_A000952) were defused.
Subjects
- Underground press
- Rescuers – Individual
- Military service
- Forced labour
- Concentration camps
- Commemoration
- Armed resistance
Places
- Antwerp