Kreiskommandantur Arlon

Collection description

Web address:: http://www.arch.be/index.php?l=fr&m=en-pratique&r=nos-salles-de-lecture&d=arlon

Scope and content:: This fonds contains a variety of documents produced by several administrative departments of the Kreiskommandantur. We note the following files (cartons): K1 (concerning “measures against the Jews”, 1941, and containing a list of ‘Jewish businesses’ in Liège), K2 (related to the ordinance of 29 August 1941 concerning the limitation of the free movement of Jews), K13 (concerning carrier pigeons owned by Jews, authorisation for the free movement of Jews, ordinances against the Jews etc., dated 1941), K84 (regarding two Jews arrested at the border with Luxembourg, October 1940), K85 (“leather industry 1940-1941”, regarding a shop managed in absence of its Jewish owners; the file also concerns the maintenance of the Jewish cemetery), K103 (concerning violations of the instructions on the dimming of lights (occultation), i.a. by some Jewish citizens; 1940), K107 (concerning the appointment of Verwalter for the management of ‘Jewish’ and ‘enemy’ businesses), K108 (i.a. regarding a number of Jewish businesses), K 109 (i.a. concerning the nationality of Jews residing in Arlon in 1941, the ordinance related to the confiscation of radios owned by Jews, the prohibition of keeping carrier pigeons by Jews etc.; 1941), K121 (containing inventories of household goods, including of several homes owned by Jews) and K130 (concerning the treatment of Jewish “Mischlinge" in the Wehrmacht; April 1940).

Administrative/biographical history:: A Kreiskommandantur was an administrative body of the German occupying authorities, roughly at the level of an arrondissement. During the Second World War, there were 33 Kreiskommandanturen in Belgium. (R. van Doorslaer, E. Debruyne, F. Seberechts & N. Wouters (ed.), Gewillig België. Overheid en Jodenvervolging tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog., Antwerpen/Brussel, Meulenhoff/Manteau en SOMA, 2007, p. 274.)

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures; Cemeteries; Holocaust; Nazism; Nazism--Nazi parties and organisations; Plunder; Radio and television; Trade and commerce; World War II

Finding aids:: P. Eppe, Inventaire des archives de la Kommandantur d’Arlon (1940-1944), 1994.