The Belgian Ministère de la Santè Publique et de la Famille was the country’s ministry of public health and family. Its remit included the administration of numerous issues related to victims of the Second World War.
See also the correspondence with Hanns Alexander within the Pre-1963 Correspondence collection.
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On behalf of the Fraternelle des Amicales des Camps (Belgian association of concentration camp survivors) the Ministère returns a certain letter The Wiener Library had lent to the Fraternelle for its exhibition ‘Life in German Concentration Camps’. The mentioned item was a letter by British journalist Hanns Alexander reflecting how he came into possession of a piece of tattooed human skin from a former German concentration camp.
Correspondence with Ministere de la Sante Publique et de la Famille (Administration des Victimes de la Guerre)