Correspondence with Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre (AVIG)
Extent and Medium
21 letters
Biographical History
Founded in 1944, the remit of (AIVG) was to provide assistance in all aspects of Jewish rehabilitation in Belgium. This included medical aid, employment services, loan and credit opportunities, legal assistance with restitution claims, a missing persons service, a repatriation service and the maintenance of numerous children's homes. See Dratwa, D., ‘Genocide and its Memories: A preliminary study on how Belgian Jewry coped with the results of the Holocaust’, in D. Michman (ed.), , Jerusalem, Yad Vashem,1998, pp. 523-59.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, primarily with AVIG’s deputy director Karl Zeilinger, regarding the organisation’s support of The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project in Belgium. This includes establishing contact with the , which held numerous accounts of Belgian Holocaust survivors, and assistance in clarifying the terms of conducting research at this institution.
Conditions Governing Access
open
People
- Zeilinger, Karl
Corporate Bodies
- Ministère de la Santé Publique
- Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre
Subjects
- Governmental institutions
- Personal narratives
- Survivors
- Jewish organisations
Places
- Belgium