Metadata: Cabinet of the mayor – Delwaide Leo sr.
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- FelixArchief – City archives of Antwerp
- Holding institution (official language):
- FelixArchief - Stadsarchief Antwerpen
- Postal address:
- Oude Leeuwenrui 29, 2000 Antwerpen
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)3 338 94 11
- Reference number:
- FelixArCity-Antwerp-Kabinet van de burgemeester – Delwaide Leo sr.
- Title:
- Cabinet of the mayor – Delwaide Leo sr.
- Title (official language):
- Kabinet van de burgemeester – Delwaide Leo sr.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Delwaide, Leonard
- Date(s):
- 1939/1978
- Extent:
- unknown
- Scope and content:
- In this fonds we note files concerning representation of mayor Leo Delwaide sr. on the occasion of the 10 year anniversary of the Belgisch Israëlitisch Weekblad (1964)(no. 742 # 26), concerning the reception of the Antwerp section of B’nai B’rith (1972)(no. 742 # 65) and concerning an interview by the BRT about the fate of the Jews of Antwerp during the Occupation (1973)(no. 742 # 69).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Leonard Delwaide (1897-1978) was a Catholic politician. He was a member of parliament between 1932 and 1946 and between 1949 and 1968. Delwaide was for a long time member of the Antwerp city council (1933-1945, 1963) and alderman (1939-1940, 1959, 1965). He remains best known however for his term as mayor of Antwerp (1940-1944) during the Second World War. During his administration, the services of the city of Antwerp would cooperate extensively with occupier in its antisemitic policies, i.a. by distributing the yellow star, the participation of police forces to roundups, etc. Delwaide was investigated after the war for his conduct but was never convicted. In 1948 he became active in the central office of the Christian democratic party (CVP) in Antwerp. Delwaide was also a member of the Raadgevende Interparlementaire Beneluxraad. (“Leonard Delwaide (1897-1978)”, in ODIS - Database Intermediary Structures Flanders (accessible on http://www.odis.be); R. van Doorslaer, E. Debruyne, F. Seberechts & N. Wouters (ed.), Gewillig België. Overheid en Jodenvervolging tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog., Antwerpen/Brussel, Meulenhoff/Manteau en SOMA, 2007.)
- Access points: locations:
- Antwerp
- Access points: persons/families:
- Delwaide, Leo
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Collaboration
- Jewish community
- Jewish press
- Finding aids:
- The archive is described in the database of the Felixarchief.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://zoeken.felixarchief.be
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium