Partial archives of the Auderghem section of the CNPPA

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Country:: Belgium

Holding institution:: Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society

Holding institution (official language):: Centre d’Études et de Documentation Guerre et Sociétés Contemporaines

Postal address:: Luchtvaartsquare 29 / Square de l’Aviation 29, 1070 Bruxelles (Anderlecht)

Phone number:: +32 (0)2 556 92 11

Web address:: http://www.cegesoma.be/

Email:: cegesoma@cegesoma.be

Reference number:: CHRDWConS-Brussels-AA 1175

Title:: Partial archives of the Auderghem section of the CNPPA

Title (official language):: Archives partielles de la section d’Auderghem de la CNPPA

Creator/accumulator:: Nationale Confederatie van Politieke Gevangenen en Rechthebbenden van België; Confédération nationale des Prisonniers politiques et Ayants Droit de Belgique

Date(s):: 1944/1974

Extent:: 3 boxes

Scope and content:: In this fonds we note no. 1175/9 in which we find the so-called “dossiers juifs” (Jewish files)(dated 1948), produced by the Commission Consultative pour Prisonniers Politiques, section Auderghem. These small files about Jewish individuals, mostly children or adolescents whose parents were murdered, concern the procedure for obtaining the status of political prisoner. The forms and hand written documents, often including a picture, contain information on the persecution and current situation of these individuals.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Nationale Confederatie van Politieke Gevangenen en Rechthebbenden van België - Confédération nationale des Prisonniers politiques et Ayants Droit de Belgique (‘National confederation of political prisoners and right holders of Belgium’)(NCPGR) was created in the summer of 1946 at the initiative of Jean Terfve, the communist Minister of War Victims. The mission of this umbrella organisation was to function as the association of all survivors of the German camps and prisons. Its goal was to defend the legal, material and moral rights and interests of these persons, and to preserve to memory of the persecutions during the Second World War. The NCPGR published its own periodical, Kracht / L’Effort. Internally, there were turbulent periods of conflicts, especially in the immediate post-war era – notably because the NCPGR was considered by many Catholic organisations (as well as the Catholic opposition in parliament) to be a communist front organisation. The NCPGR played a crucial role during the final phase of the ‘Royal Question’ (1950). Incidentally, not all members within the organisation (mainly Catholics) were as sympathetic to the Jewish survivors, who had generally not been persecuted because of their patriotic activities, but ‘only’ because of ‘racial’ motives. (P. Aron & J. Gotovitch, Dictionnaire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en Belgique, Brussel, André Versaille, 2008, pp. 47 and 139; P. Lagrou, The legacy of Nazi occupation: patriotic memory and national recovery in western Europe, 1945-1965, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 221; 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, pp. 1040-1045.)

Access points: locations:: Auderghem

Subject terms:: Children; Commemoration; Holocaust; Holocaust--Survivors; Prisoners; Vital records

Finding aids:: G. Roeseler & D. Martin, Archives de la Section locale d'Auderghem de la Confédération nationale des Prisonniers politiques et Ayants droit 1946-1950 (1960), Brussel, CEGESOMA, 2000 (list AA 1175). The fonds is also described in the database of the CEGESOMA.

Links to finding aids:: http://pallas.cegesoma.be/pls/opac/plsp.getplsdoc?lan=N&htdoc=general/opac.htm

Yerusha Network member:: State Archives of Belgium

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