Selected records of the Royal Belgian Archive
Extent and Medium
757 digital images, JPEG
41 microfilm reels, 35 mm
Archival History
Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Archives Générales du Royaume via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Programs Division in November 2005.
Scope and Content
Contains clandestine underground bulletins, newsletters and other publications selected from the Royal Belgian Archive's Inventory 253. Also contains records of the Belgian Communist Party, papers of René Greindl (wartime governor of the Luxembourg province), an inventory of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, and records concerning the German occupation administration in Belgium, the Belgian National Movement in Luxembourg, partisan armies, the battle of the Ardennes, the Feldkommandatura in Bastogne, and the situation in the Luxembourg province.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belgium.
- Anti-Nazi movement--Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium.
- Belgium--History--Sources.
- Belgium--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground literature--Belgium--Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage--Belgium.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)