Metadata: René De Bakker archives
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- KADOC Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society
- Holding institution (official language):
- KADOC Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving
- Postal address:
- Vlamingenstraat 39, 3000 Leuven
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)16 32 35 00
- Web address:
- https://kadoc.kuleuven.be/
- Email:
- postmaster@kadoc.kuleuven.be
- Reference number:
- KADOC-Leuven-223
- Title:
- René De Bakker archives
- Title (official language):
- René De Bakker archives
- Creator/accumulator:
- De Bakker, René
- Date(s):
- 1921/1992
- Extent:
- 0.6 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- In box 1 we find i.a. circulars and convocations letters (1980) of the Groep Een. Studiegroep voor Joods-Christelijke betrekkingen. Box 2 contains a file “ecumenism national”, holding documents concerning i.a. de Katholieke Nationale Commissie voor Oecumene (including minutes of meetings, 1989, 1991-1992), annual reports of the diocesan and subcommittees (including the Nationale Commissie voor de Betrekkingen met het Jodendom, 1989, 1991), texts and reports concerning the General Assemblies, and working documents and articles related to the ‘Karmel’ in Auschwitz (1989). Box 4 contains a file concerning the 9th conference of the Institutum Iudaicum titled “L’image de la femme dans l’écriture et la tradition” (1986), including i.a. the texts of the lectures. We also note circulars (1988) and activity reports (for the years 1981, 1985-1988) of the Institutum Iudaicum, and assorted circulars (1988) of the aforementioned Groep Een. Lastly, box 5 contains several press releases and texts concerning the relations of the Church with the Jews (1977), and an annual report of the Katholieke Nationale Commissie voor de Oecumene (1986).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- René De Bakker (1922-1994) was ordained a priest in 1947. He was chaplain in Peutie (1947-1949), teacher at the Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Diest (1950-1967), deacon (1967) and priest (1967-1992) in Tervuren. De Bakker was also administrator of the parish of Vossem and Tervuren, and chaplain in Tervuren. (“René De Bakker (1922-1994)”, in ODIS - Database Intermediary Structures Flanders (accessible on http://www.odis.be))
- Access points: locations:
- Auschwitz
- Access points: persons/families:
- De Bakker, René
- Access, restrictions:
- Consultation requires the authorisation of the heirs of René De Bakker; contact KADOC for more information.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
