Selected records from the General Files of the Police for Foreigners
Extent and Medium
74,555 digital images, JPEG
18 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 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 (Belgian Royal Archives), via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Archives Project in December 2005.
Scope and Content
Contains materials related to the observation, registration, and internment of foreigners in Belgium before, during and immediately after the war and to Belgian immigration policies. Also contains information on the control of alien registration and immigration by the Belgian Police for Foreigners.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)
Subjects
- Return migration--Belgium.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belgium.
- Refugee camps--Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Belgium.
- Merksplas (Belgium : Prison)
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belgium.
- Belgium--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Jews--Persecutions--Belgium.
- Belgium--Ethnic relations.
- Refugees--History--20th century.
- Jews--Belgium--History.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Registers.
- Document
- Reports.