"Bystanders, Victims, and Perpetrators" "A descriptive analysis of individual choices and moral responsibility in the case of an informal network of Protestants trying to rescue Jews in the surroundings of Antwerp and Louvain between 1942 and 1945"
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jan Maes
Jan Maes donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nov. 29, 2008.
Scope and Content
Consists of one manuscript, 79 pages, entitled "Bystanders, Victims, and Perpetrators: A descriptive analysis of individual choices and moral responsibility in the case of an informal network of Protestants trying to rescue Jews in the surroundings of Antwerp and Louvain between 1942 and 1945," by Jan Maes, who wrote the paper as part of a masters degree in religious sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain. In the manuscript, Maes uses original testimony and interviews with rescuers and those who were rescued, and focuses on Julia Schuyten Sluys, a rescuer, Sylvieke Reichman, a child who survived, and Louis Debra, a Nazi collaborator.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Jan Maes
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium.
Genre
- Document