"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"

Identifier
irn36294
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.293.1
Dates
1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2006
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

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

Genre

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