Correspondence with Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre (AVIG)
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Founded in 1944, the remit of Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre (AIVG) was to provide assistance in all aspects of Jewish rehabilitation in Belgium. This included medical aid, employment services, loan and credit opportunities, legal assistance with restitution claims, a missing persons service, a repatriation service and the maintenance of numerous children's homes.
See Dratwa, D., ‘Genocide and its Memories: A preliminary study on how Belgian Jewry coped with the results of the Holocaust’, in D. Michman (ed.), Belgium and the Holocaust. Jews, Belgians, Germans, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem,1998, pp. 523-59.
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Correspondence with Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre (AVIG)
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Correspondence primarily with AVIG’s deputy director Karl Zeilinger regarding support of The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project in Belgium. This includes establishing contact with the Ministère de la Santè Publique et de la Famille, which held numerous accounts of Belgian Holocaust survivors, and assistance in clarifying the terms of conducting research at this institution.
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For information about the eyewitness testimony project and access to the compiled reports see the Eyewitness Testimony Collection.