be-002157-kd 00088
type: RecordSet
archival history: After the departure of the last Jewish residents in December 1944, the registries of the retirement home Scheut were further used for the registration of newly-arrived non-Jewish residents. Both registries thus remained part of the archives of the branch of the Commission d’Assistance publique or CAP (Commission for Public Welfare) in Anderlecht, which included the Scheut district. In 1976, the CAPs were reformed and became the Public Centre for Social Welfare or PCSW. The PCSW of Anderlecht eventually decided to transfer the registries of the retirement home Scheut to the State Archives in Brussels. In 2013, the State Archives offered Kazerne Dossin a digital copy of the war-time pages referring to Jewish residents.
biographical history: In the summer of 1943 the German authorities allowed the Association of Jews in Belgium (AJB) to open its first retirement homes for elderly Jews. A special AJB Service d’Intervention (intervention department) strived to transfer elderly Jews from the Dossin barracks to these institutions. However, very soon the homes in Saint-Gilles and Auderghem became overcrowded. Around the same time, it was noted that the Commission d’Assistance publique of Great-Brussels or CAP (Commission for Public Welfare, heading the complete current Brussels capital region) housed many Jewish men and women in its retirement homes and hospitals. Therefore the CAP was forced to combine powers with the AJB to separate Jewish and non-Jewish elders in separate institutions. Negotiations regarding the founding of a third Jewish retirement home lasted until the Fall of 1943. However, the raid aiming at the arrest of Jewish men, women and children holding Belgian nationality (the night of 3 on 4 September 1943) stirred protest amongst Belgian authorities. On 7 September 1943 43 elderly Belgians – Jewish men and women older than 60 arrested during this Aktion Iltis – were transferred from the Dossin barracks to the retirement home Scheut, a district of Anderlecht, thus becoming its first residents. Their number rose quickly : from 210 in September 1943 to 490 in June 1944. However, not all Jews arrived directly from the Dossin barracks. Some were transferred from the offices of the Sicherheitspolizei-Sicherheitsdienst in Brussels and Antwerp, from the Antwerp prison (Begijnenstraat), from their homes, from hospitals or from institutions led by CAP. A few even presented themselves voluntarily at the Scheut facility. The residents of the home were not deported. Although the AJB believed they were protecting these elderly men and women from deportation, discussion among historians showed that it is more likely that the residents would have been deported if the occupying forces would have had sufficie…
location of originals: State Archives, Brussels
other finding aids: A name index is not yet available.
publication note: DELPLANCQ Thierry and MASSANGE Catherine,"L'Hospice de Scheut (1942-1944", in Bijdragen tot de Eigentijdse Herinnering/Les Cahiers de la Mémoire contemporaine, 2003-2004 (5), pp. 13-34.
accruals: No further accruals are to be expected.
conditions of access: Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu
conditions of use: State Archives, Brussels
has beginning date: 1943-01-01
has end date: 1944-12-31
has or had holder: be-002157
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had subject: 579
has or had subject: 1136
has or had subject: 868
has record set type: Collection
identifier: KD_00088
record resource extent: 198 digitised images (2 registries)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: This collection contains digital copies of two registries used to monitor the number of residents at the Jewish retirement home Scheut in Anderlecht. The institution housed 490 Jewish elderly men and women from September 1943 until December 1944. Each page contains four names and bibliographical information : name, date of birth, place of birth, profession, nationality, information on the spouse, date of arrival at Scheut and date of departure. The registries sometimes also refer to the way of arrival or departure of a person.
title: Registries of Jewish retirement home Scheut. Collection