Documentation regarding the Jews of Belgium mainly during the Holocaust period
Extent and Medium
123 files New documantation is added to this collection on regular basis
Creator(s)
Archival History
Some of the documentation in this Record Group was submitted by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
Scope and Content
In the Record Group there is documentation that was submitted to Yad Vashem by private people including personal documents from the war period, lists of various kinds, letters and other types of documentation reflecting Jewish life in Belgium and the persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust period. In the Record Group there is documentation regarding the rescue of Jews, the Belgian underground and participation of Jews in the underground, activities of the Association des Juifs en Belgique (AJB - Association of Jews in Belgium) as well as documentation regarding the Mechlen transit camp.
Finding Aids
Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room
Existence and Location of Originals
YV archives Private People
Archivist Note
JL according to the RG description in the YV system
Rules and Conventions
EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0
Dates of Descriptions
2014--6-12
Subjects
Personal documentation on Jewish life in Belgium during the Holocaust.
Extent and Medium
ca. 150 files.
Scope and Content
This fonds contains various documents (in many cases, copies) pertaining to the fate of the Jews in Belgium during the Second World War – including copies of the newspaper Le Flambeau, a list of Jewish children hidden by the Comité de Défense des Juifs, lists of resistance fighters, documents concerning war criminals, … and many other copies documents from archives kept by various organisations and institutions in Belgium.
Finding Aids
The only finding aid is an undated hand-written list in Hebrew.
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.
Pascale Falek
This archival description was created in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.
Subjects
- Second World War
- resistance
- prosecution of war criminals
- hidden children
- Shoah