The Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance was inaugurated in 1996 at the site of the former SS-Sammellager Mecheln, better known as the Dossin barracks. In 1994 researchers Maxime Steinberg and Laurence Schram had started working on the permanent exhibition. Searching for documents on the Holocaust in general and the Belgian case in particular, they assembled a research collection containing work copies of important documents which were part of the archival collections of other institutes. Thus a research collection was created. Kazerne Dossin as the successor of the JMDR inherited its archival collections, including the collection of miscellaneous documents (work copies).
The Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (JMDR), predecessor of Kazerne Dossin, opened its doors in 1996. The museum was the result of a collaboration between the Jewish Central Consistory of Belgium and the Association of Jewish Deportees. Sir Natan Ramet, survivor of Auschwitz, the death marches and Dachau, was appointed president of the new museum. Apart from its commemorative, museological and educational assignment, the JMDR also had a historical assignment : to digitise all archival collections related to the Holocaust in Belgium and to make these documents available to the public. In 2008 the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance was reorganised and became, in 2012, Kazerne Dossin - Memorial, Museum and Documentation Center on Holocaust and Human Rights.
This collection consists of work copies of original documents stored at other institutes.
Multiple institutes, including: USHMM, Washington DC; Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels; Service for War Victims, Brussels; Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris; Cegesoma, Brussels; private collections.
Item descriptions were drafted by dr. Laurence Schram.
Voor de meeste onderdelen bestaan gedetailleerde lijsten, beschreven op stukniveau. Opzoekingen gebeuren best in samenwerking met de archivarissen.
The documents in this collection are work copies. Kazerne Dossin cannot provide copies of these materials to third parties.
The permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance was inaugurated in 1996 and was dismantled in 2011.
No further accruals are to be expected
Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
ca. 38000 stukken.
1,500 images (documents)
Deze collectie valt uiteen in enkele honderden kleinere (sub)collecties en bestanden. Enerzijds gaat het om archieven, iconografisch materiaal, documentatie, periodieken enzoverder toevertrouwd aan de Kazerne Dossin door overlevenden van de Shoah (of hun familieleden), door oud-verzetslui, nakomelingen van slachtoffers van de Shoah, … Daarnaast bevat de verzameling ook persoonlijk archiefmateriaal (nota’s, foto’s, briefwisseling) of allerhande collecties (krantenknipsels, pamfletten, affiches) van onderzoekers, van oud-verzetsstrijders, van personen die later functies uitoefenden binnen Joodse gemeenschappen of organisaties, … Zo vinden we onder andere losse stukken, foto’s tot hele (sub)collecties geschonken door Maxime Steinberg, Nathan Ramet, Andrée Geulen, Jean Bloch, Maurice Pioro, Sylvain Brachfeld, en vele anderen. De collectie bevat ook archief van enkele organisaties, o.a. van de Union des Anciens Résistants Juifs de Belgique. Ten slotte vermelden we nog de reeksen gekopieerde archiefstukken en documentatie (zowel fotokopies en digitale kopies), waarvan de originelen bewaard worden door instellingen zoals verschillende stadsarchieven (o.a. Gent, Brussel en Antwerpen), provinciale archieven (waaronder Antwerpen), de Directie-Generaal Oorlogsslachtoffers, Nationaal Gedenkteken Fort van Breendonk, USHMM, Yad Vashem, ... Doorgaans gaat het om bestanden die elders in deze gids beschreven worden. We merken op dat de structuur en inhoud van deze collectie op moment van schrijven grondig herwerkt wordt en dus nog zal veranderen.
This collection consists of work copies of miscellaneous documents on the Holocaust in general and the Belgian case in particular, stored in dozens of institutes worldwide. The copies were entrusted to the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance in 1994-1996, in order to create its permanent exhibition.
Eigen Verzameling Archiefmateriaal.
Miscellaneous documents collected to create the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance. Collection