Metadata: Nationaal Comité van de Anti-Atoommars
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Amsab – Institute of Social History
- Holding institution (official language):
- Amsab - Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
- Postal address:
- Bagattenstraat 174, 9000 Gent
- Phone number:
- +32 9 224 00 79
- Web address:
- www.amsab.be
- Email:
- info@amsab.be
- Reference number:
- AmsabISH-Ghent-107
- Title:
- Nationaal Comité van de Anti-Atoommars
- Title (official language):
- Nationaal Comité van de Anti-Atoommars
- Creator/accumulator:
- Nationaal Comité van de Anti-Atoommars
- Date(s):
- 1960/1973
- Language:
- Dutch; Flemish
- French
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 1.21 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- In this fonds we note correspondence with Jewish organisations wanting to participate in the Anti-Atoommarsen (manifestations against nuclear weapons). We find correspondence with Hashomer Hatzair – Mouvement de Jeunesse Sioniste Khaloutzique (no. 29; dated 1963), the CCLJ (no. 1446; 1968) and the Belgische Joodse Jeugdfederatie / Fédération de la Jeunesse Juive de Belgique (nos. 650, 30, 276, 275, 1037 and 1171; 1963-1966). Files nos. 512 and 1388 contain letters by Max Gottschalk, concerning his attendance of meetings (1964, 1967). Lastly, we point out the Yiddish leaflet for the Anti-Atoommars in Brussels (1963) (see no. 185).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Nationaal Comité van de Anti-Atoommars (NCAA) was established in 1962 as a forum to persuade the youth movements, regardless of their political affiliation, to take a joint position on the nuclear arms race and world peace. Its president was Piet Frantzen, who at the time was also the secretary of the peace organisation Nationale Federatie van Initiatiefcomités voor een Belgische Bijdrage aan de Internationale Ontwapening. The composition and structure of the NCAA was barely defined and varied from year to year. Eventually six ‘Anti-Atomic Marches’ were organised between 1963 and 1968. Mobilisation was done by local and regional committees, often composed of members of local youth associations. In addition, the NCAA also organised congresses and high school classes about (the dangers of) atomic energy. The movement was gradually faced with stagnation of the number of participants, and with actions and sabotage of radical (left- and right-wing) groups. In the late 1960s, the NCAA was absorbed in the protest movement against the war in Vietnam. (M. Voets, Nationaal Comité van de Anti-Atoommars, Gent, AMSAB-ISG, 2002.)
- Access points: locations:
- Brussels
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gottschalk, Max
- Access, restrictions:
- M. Voets, Nationaal Comité van de Anti-Atoommars, Gent, AMSAB-ISG, 2002.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
