Metadata: Interviews with Belgian Jews
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 1196
- Title:
- Interviews with Belgian Jews
- Title (official language):
- Interviews met Belgische Joden
- Creator/accumulator:
- Studie- en Documentatiecentrum Oorlog en Hedendaagse Maatschappij; Centre d’Études et de Documentation Guerre et Sociétés Contemporaines
- Date(s):
- 1970
- Language:
- English
- French
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 22 microfiches
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains a selection of interviews from the research project OHD 27 of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry – Oral History Division (of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). We find 22 transcriptions of interviews of 25 Jewish individuals. The interviews mainly concern the Jewish resistance during the Second World War: armed resistance, the Comité de Défense des Juifs, the hiding of Jewish children, etc. They also relate to pre-war Jewish organisations in Belgium such as religious communities, Bnei Akiva, Fédération Sioniste, Hashomer Hatzair, Poale Zion, Linke Poale Zion, etc.
- Finding aids:
- List AA 1196. See also J. Robinson & Y. Bauer, Guide to unpublished materials of the Holocaust period, I, Jerusalem, Hebrew University Institute of Contemporary Jewry, 1970.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
