Metadata: Baron Jean Bloch archives
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 du Baron Jean Bloch
- Title:
- Baron Jean Bloch archives
- Title (official language):
- Archives du Baron Jean Bloch
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bloch, Jean
- Date(s):
- 1965-1997
- Date note:
- ca. late 1960s – mid 1990s
- Extent:
- 6 moving boxes
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains correspondence related to the various functions of Baron Jean Bloch, notably as president of the Consistory, of la Centrale but also related to his involvement in the Alliance israélite universelle and the Confédération Inter-Alliés des Officiers de Réserve. This fonds also contains many notes and reports.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jean Simon Bloch was born in Brussels in 1913, as the son of Max Bloch and Germaine Brunschvig. He married Denise Errera. As a captain in the Belgian army, he joined the Piron Brigade in Great Britain. He was captured in December 1944 in Bastogne and deported to Germany, but succeeded in escaping. He was head of the Centrale d’Œuvres sociales juives from 1966 to 1970, functioned as the head of the Central Jewish Consistory of Belgium from 1978 to 1981 and even became its honorary president. He was also the honorary president of the Comité d’action des Forces belges en Grande-Bretagne, of the Union Royale Nationale des Officiers de Réserve and of the Union Royale Nationale des Évadés de Guerre. He was appointed Grand Officier in the Order of Leopold II, Commander of the Order of the Crown and Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur; he was titled Baron in 1991. He died in Brussels in 2002. ("Nécrologie du Baron Jean Bloch", in Le Soir, 3 April 2002, p. 21; J. Bloch, Épreuves et Combats 1940-1945. Histoires d’hommes et de femmes issus de la collectivité juive de Belgique, Bruxelles, éd. D. Devillez, 2002; T. Gergely, "Jean Bloch nous a quittés", in Kehilatenou. Bulletin trimestriel de la Communauté israélite de Bruxelles, no. 453, 2e trimestre 2002, p. 7; S. Landau, "Une grande personnalité du Judaïsme belge: Jean Bloch. Ancien président du CCIB", in La Centrale, no. 217, mars 1982)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bloch, Jean
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
