Fons Van Cleempoel archives

Collection description

Holding institution (official language):: Amsab - Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

Scope and content:: In this file we find some subject files containing documents produced or collected by the Anti-Fascistisch Front in Antwerp, related to events connected to the Jewish community in Antwerp (i.a. the situation of Soviet Jewry, the terrorist attack of 1981) and the campaigns of the AFF against neo-Nazism and Holocaust denial. The material includes correspondence (i.a. an antisemitic threatening letter, addressed to Van Cleempoel), minutes of meetings, various texts, documentation, etc. covering the 1970s and early 1980s. See files nos. 3.12 and 38.310.

Administrative/biographical history:: Alfons Van Cleempoel is a militant of the union ACOD. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was active in the Anti-Fascistisch Front in Antwerp. (Archief van Fons Van Cleempoel (BE / AMSAB-ISG / 505); correspondence of the author with Rik De Coninck (Amsab-ISG), March 2014)

Subject terms:: Anti-Fascism; Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda; Jewish political activity; Jewish self-defence and resistance; Neo-Nazism