Metadata: Bureau des Domaines of Charleroi. Sequester Office
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Mons
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives de l’État à Mons
- Postal address:
- Avenue des Bassins 66, 7000 Mons
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)65 400 460
- Email:
- archives.mons@arch.be
- Reference number:
- SA-Mons-524-851
- Title:
- Bureau des Domaines of Charleroi. Sequester Office
- Title (official language):
- Bureau des Domaines de Charleroi. Office des Séquestres
- Creator/accumulator:
- FOD Financiën; SPF Finances
- Date(s):
- 1842/1985
- Extent:
- 30 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds notably contains lists of foreign nationals in the municipalities of the Charleroi region – among them also stateless persons described as Jewish. These are lists of aliens registered in the ‘alien register’ of the municipalities who had been the subject of investigations; the lists were sent by the local police to the Office des Séquestres, in execution of article 4 of the arrêté-loi of 23 August 1944. They contain the name of the individual, his/her residence, nationality and profession as well as the results of the investigation. The police commissioner of Charleroi mentioned the activity of foreign nationals during the Occupation. In the case of foreign Jews, for example, we often find mention of the fact that they were imprisoned by the Germans, that they lived in a furnished apartment, that they haven’t returned etc. See files nos. 315-327.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Belgian government created the Ministry of Finance in 1831. As one of the five ministries at the time it was in charge of, notably, the new kingdom’s bookkeeping (budget, accounts, patrimonial accounting) and the execution of fiscal legislation. The Secretary-General was assisted by the General Secretariat, responsible for logistics, staff policy, accounting, the documentation and study service, the translation service, the automation service, the social service, etc. The ministry was also supported by a number of external services, advisory and executive commissions, and a number of public institutions. The Ministry of Finance was subdivided into ‘fiscal’ (among others Direct Taxes, Customs and Excise, Land Registration and Estates, Cadastre) and ‘non-fiscal’ (Treasury and Public Debt, Mint) departments. In the 1970s and 1990s the ministry underwent extensive reforms; new services were created and the tasks of some departments were redefined. The fiscal departments in particular were thoroughly reshaped. The formal creation of the FPS Finance dates back to 2002. Today, the FPS Finance has six general administrations (incl. Patrimonial Documentation, Treasury, Special Tax Inspection), five staff departments (incl. ICT, staff), eight departments of the Chairman (incl. the Central Legal Department) and three autonomous services (incl. Tax conciliation). (Several pages on http://financien.belgium.be/nl/; M. Preneel & J. Verhelst, “De FOD Financiën”, in P. van den Eeckhout & G. Vanthemsche (ed.), Bronnen voor de studie van het hedendaagse België 19e – 21e eeuw. Tweede herziene en uitgebreide uitgave. Brussel, Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis / Commission Royale d’Histoire, 2009, pp. 407-421.)
- Access points: locations:
- Charleroi
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Migration
- Occupation (military)
- Refugees
- Vital records
- Finding aids:
- P.-J. Niebes, Inventaire des archives des Domaines de Charleroi, Bruxelles, ARA-AGR.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
