Metadata: Collection of audio recordings of testimonies of survivors of the camps
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Auschwitz Foundation – Remembrance of Auschwitz
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stichting Auschwitz - vzw Auschwitz in gedachtenis
- Postal address:
- Huidevettersstraat 65 / Rue des Tanneurs 65, 1000 Brussel
- Phone number:
- +32 (0) 2 512 79 98
- Web address:
- http://www.auschwitz.be/
- Email:
- info@auschwitz.be
- Reference number:
- AuschF-Brussels-Bestand audioregistratie van getuigenissen van overlevenden van de kampen
- Title:
- Collection of audio recordings of testimonies of survivors of the camps
- Title (official language):
- Bestand audioregistratie van getuigenissen van overlevenden van de kampen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Stichting Auschwitz – vzw Auschwitz in Gedachtenis; Fondation Auschwitz – Mémoire d’Auschwitz asbl
- Date(s):
- 1945/1999
- Date note:
- 20th century
- Extent:
- ca. 66 recordings (over 150 hours)
- Scope and content:
- At the time of writing, this collection consists of 66 testimonies, recorded on audio cassettes, of individuals who survived the concentration camps and/or killing centres. In total there are over 150 hours of recordings. The names, organisations and locations mentioned were included in the index of the Stichting Auschwitz.
- Archival history:
- The recordings were carried out by the Stichting Auschwitz.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Stichting Auschwitz (‘Auschwitz foundation’) was created in 1980 by the Belgian association of former political prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau, camps and prisons of Silesia. The foundation’s mission is to preserve the memory to the Holocaust and Nazi-terror i.a. through historical research, the conservation of archives and the transmission of knowledge. For this purpose a study and documentation centre was developed, the non-profit association (vzw) Auschwitz in Gedachtenis (‘Auschwitz in remembrance’). In 2010 the association became one of the three recognised research centres in the context of the Décret relative à la transmission de la mémoire (13 March 2009) of the Communauté française. (http://www.auschwitz.be)
- Access points: locations:
- Auschwitz
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Concentration camps
- Holocaust--Survivors
- Testimony
- Access, restrictions:
- Consultation is reserved for researchers. They are required to fill out a research declaration prior to consultation.
- Finding aids:
- There is a list of interviewed persons.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
