Metadata: Collection of interviews conducted by researchers of the CEGESOMA
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society
- Holding institution (official language):
- Centre d’Études et de Documentation Guerre et Sociétés Contemporaines
- Postal address:
- Luchtvaartsquare 29 / Square de l’Aviation 29, 1070 Bruxelles (Anderlecht)
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 556 92 11
- Web address:
- http://www.cegesoma.be/
- Email:
- cegesoma@cegesoma.be
- Reference number:
- CHRDWConS-Brussels-AA 2268
- Title:
- Collection of interviews conducted by researchers of the CEGESOMA
- Title (official language):
- Collectie interviews uitgevoerd door medewerkers van het CEGESOMA
- Creator/accumulator:
- Studie- en Documentatiecentrum Oorlog en Hedendaagse Maatschappij; Centre d’Études et de Documentation Guerre et Sociétés Contemporaines
- Date(s):
- 1951/2002
- Extent:
- 1,800 interviews
- Scope and content:
- This voluminous collection contains recordings of interviews conducted by researchers and collaborators of the CEGESOMA as well as a number of radio and television broadcasts. A transcription is available for many interviews. All interviews conducted by CEGESOMA personnel have been digitised. They relate to virtually all aspects of political, social, economic and daily life during the interwar years and the Second World War. We note for example many interviews of Jewish individuals, both well-known (Edith Buch, Yvonne Jospa, Regine Orfinger, Max Gottschalk, Dov Liebermann, Marc Schreiber, Maxime Steinberg etc.) and lesser known figures. Other interviews relevant for this guide concern i.a. testimonies about the concentration camps and killing centres such as Breendonk, Dora, Buchenwald; Jewish immigration in Belgium (see the interviews with Adolf Rosenberg and Paula Schumiliver); the communist party and its resistance movements (for Solidarité juive, see the interview with Icek Wolfman); Zionism, in particular Hashomer Hatzair Antwerp (see the interviews with David Donner); JASK Antwerp (see the interview with Aron Weisberg); Israel (see the interviews with Joshua Hass and Mandelbaum). The collection also includes other interviews and broadcasts related to our subject, i.a. an interview from Radio Judaïca, broadcasts of the RTBF concerning the Holocaust and Belgian and German antisemitism, a program of Europe no. 1 about the Jews in France during the Occupation and an interview of the same station with (French) Commissioner-General for the Jewish Question Louis Darquier de Pellepois.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Buch, Edith
- Gottschalk, Max
- Jospa, Yvonne
- Orfinger-Karlin, Régine
- Schreiber, Marc
- Steinberg, Maxime
- Finding aids:
- The interviews are described in two lists, ordered by name of the interviewee and by subject respectively. These lists can be downloaded from the CEGESOMA database. The database also contains descriptions of the interviews and transcriptions, ordered by the name of the interviewer (see the section “Geluidsarchief” / “Archives sonores”).
- Links to finding aids:
- http://pallas.cegesoma.be/pls/opac/plsp.getplsdoc?lan=N&htdoc=general/opac.htm
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
