Metadata: YWCA archives
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Archive and Research Centre for Women’s History
- Holding institution (official language):
- Centre d’Archives pour l’Histoire des Femmes
- Postal address:
- Middaglijnstraat 10 / Rue du Méridien 10, 1210 Brussel (Sint-Joost-ten-Noode)
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 229 38 31
- Web address:
- http://www.avg-carhif.be/
- Email:
- avg.carhif@amazone.be
- Reference number:
- ARCWH-Brussels-YWCA 84
- Title:
- YWCA archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds YWCA
- Creator/accumulator:
- Young Women’s Christian Association, Antwerp branch
- Date(s):
- 1920/2003
- Extent:
- 318 files
- Scope and content:
- In file no. 256 of this fonds we find documents concerning the “Service d’aide aux émigrantes à Anvers” (“department of aid to female emigrants in Antwerp”), from the years 1921-1939. It contains i.a. correspondence, reports and other documents related to the cooperation and consultation with the Jewish migrant organisation Ezra.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was deposited in 2003.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- YWCA-Antwerp was created in 1919, as the first Belgian branch of the Young Women’s Christian Association (founded in 1855). The goal of the YWCA was the “complete physical, moral and intellectual development” of women. To this end, training activities, holiday camps but also homes, restaurants and other services were established. From 1926, the Fédération des Foyers Belges de l’YWCA acted as the umbrella organisation for the sections in Antwerp, Brussels, Mons and Verviers, which also included a Bureau d’Aide aux Émigrantes d’Anvers (‘assistance office for female emigrants in Antwerp’). In 1980 the organisation changed its name to YWCA of Belgium, and split into a Dutch-speaking and French-speaking section. ((unpublished) inventory of the YWCA archives (BE / AVG-CARHIF / YWCA 84).)
- Access points: locations:
- Antwerp
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the AVG-Carhif.
- Finding aids:
- There is an unpublished inventory.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
