Metadata: Archives of the Communauté israélite de Charleroi
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Museum of Belgium
- Holding institution (official language):
- Musée Juif de Belgique
- Postal address:
- Miniemenstraat 21 / Rue des Minimes 21, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 512 19 63
- Web address:
- http://www.new.mjb-jmb.org
- Email:
- info@mjb-jmb.org
- Reference number:
- JM-Brussels-Archives de la Communauté israélite de Charleroi
- Title:
- Archives of the Communauté israélite de Charleroi
- Title (official language):
- Archives de la Communauté israélite de Charleroi
- Creator/accumulator:
- Communauté israélite de Charleroi
- Date(s):
- 1956/1975
- Extent:
- 4 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds notably contains: documents regarding the construction of a new synagogue in Charleroi (1960-1962), minutes of meetings of the board of the community (1960-1962) [box 77]; registers of birth, bar mitzvoth, marriages and deaths (1957-1961), files concerning burial plots and correspondence with the local authorities on this subject (1956-1961), bookkeeping records (1960-1968), lists of contributions (1956-1962) [box 78]; bookkeeping documents (1971-1974) [box 120] and bookkeeping records and documents related to the budget (1963-1975) [box 121]. (see boxes 77, 78, 120 and 121)
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Communauté israélite de Charleroi (Jewish community of Charleroi) was founded in 1918. Its members were primarily Jewish immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe who had come to Belgium to work in the coal mines. The community consisted of about 600 families on the eve of the Second World War. Community life flourished. The Shoah was a turning point. A large part of the members of the Jewish community of Charleroi were deported and murdered. Nevertheless the community rebuilt itself after the war. A synagogue was constructed in the rue Pige-au-Croly in 1961 and inaugurated two years later. The Foyer communautaire (‘community centre’) was also established at this address. (La Communauté Israélite de Charleroi http://www.jewishcom.be/wordpress/2009/03/01/la-communaute-israelite-de-charleroi-de-israelitische-gemeenschap-van-charleroi/)
- Access points: locations:
- Charleroi
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Finding aids:
- There is a preliminary inventory of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
