Metadata: Marc Goldberg archives
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Foundation of Contemporary Memory
- Holding institution (official language):
- Fondation de la Mémoire Contemporaine
- Postal address:
- Avenue Victoria 5 / Victorialaan 5, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 650 35 64
- Web address:
- http://www.fmc-seh.be/
- Email:
- info@fmc-seh.be
- Reference number:
- FConMem-Brussels-Fonds Marc Goldberg
- Title:
- Marc Goldberg archives
- Title (official language):
- Fonds Marc Goldberg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Goldberg, Marc
- Date(s):
- 1940/1999
- Date note:
- precise dates unknown
- Language:
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 19 boxes
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises three distinct series. The first series concerns the Kiel trial (and is currently located in Kazerne Dossin, in Mechelen); the second series contains the archives of the Union des Déportés Juifs (kept by the FMC-SEH); the third series consists of copies of (re)transcriptions of thirty interviews taken in the immediate post-war period made for the Wiener Library.
The first series relates to the Kiel trial – the trial against Ernst Ehlers, Konstantin Canaris, Kurt Asche and Karl Fielitz held in Kiel (Germany), of which the verdict was given in March 1977. This series contains the files related to the decisions of the trials and the civil parties, correspondence and documentation, cards related to the civil parties and other documents concerning the trial.
The second series, the archives of the Union des Déportés Juifs et Ayants Droit en Belgique (UDJADB), contains documents related to the Mémorial aux martyrs juifs de Belgique, the board of the UDJADB, correspondence of the UDJADB, bookkeeping documents, subject files related to the pilgrimage to Mechelen and to the International Auschwitz Committee; we also find various individual files concerning requests for compensation or proof of invalidity. Furthermore, we note a biographical text by Jean Bloch on Max Gottschalk, documents related to the Centrale, documents concerning the Maïmonide and Ganenou schools (notably concerning the acquisition of the land for the latter school in 1973), correspondence with COREF and various subject files concerning notably revisionism, the 3rd millenary of Jerusalem (1996), the Righteous Among the Nations, etc.
The third series consists of copies of some thirty interviews produced by Marc Goldberg for the Wiener Library and of correspondence related to these interviews (1956-1958); we also find a report on the administration of ‘Jewish assets’ by the Germans during the war, and a report on Jewish organisation during the Occupation.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was deposited by Marc Goldberg, founding member of the FMC-SEH and one of the important figures of the Kiel trial.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Born in Liège in 1928, Marc Goldberg studied law at the ULB (1947-1952). He married Véra Ghilman in 1952. They had four children: Yves, Anne, Michaël and Martine. Parallel to his brilliant career – he was inscribed at the Brussels Bar (1952-1982), became judge at the Tribunal de première instance of Brussels (1982-1990) and attorney at the Cour d’Appel in Brussels – Marc Goldberg was heavily involved in the associational life of the Jewish community. He was one of the founders of the Union des Déportés Juifs de Belgique, he was the president of the association Pro Muséo Judaïco as well as the Centrale d’Œuvres Sociales Juives, he founded and led the Fondation de la Mémoire Contemporaine and was a board member of the Institut Martin Buber. Goldberg was also active for the Wiener Library.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Goldberg, Marc
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the researchers of the FMC-SEH.
- Finding aids:
- There exists an inventory of the part regarding the Union des Déportés Juifs et Ayants Droit en Belgique of this fonds, and a list of the part of the fonds concerning the Kiel trial (currently kept in the Kazerne Dossin). There are also lists of the copies of the transcriptions of the interviews in the Wiener Library.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
