Personal documentation on Jewish life in Belgium during the Holocaust.
http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/il-002798-o_29_3 an entity of type: RecordSet
Some of the documentation in this Record Group was submitted by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
ca. 1940-1968
O.29.3
Personal documentation on Jewish life in Belgium during the Holocaust.
Documentation regarding the Jews of Belgium mainly during the Holocaust period
JL according to the RG description in the YV system
Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room
The only finding aid is an undated hand-written list in Hebrew.
ca. 150 files.
123 files
New documantation is added to this collection on regular basis
In the Record Group there is documentation that was submitted to Yad Vashem by private people including personal documents from the war period, lists of various kinds, letters and other types of documentation reflecting Jewish life in Belgium and the persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust period.
In the Record Group there is documentation regarding the rescue of Jews, the Belgian underground and participation of Jews in the underground, activities of the Association des Juifs en Belgique (AJB - Association of Jews in Belgium) as well as documentation regarding the Mechlen transit camp.
This fonds contains various documents (in many cases, copies) pertaining to the fate of the Jews in Belgium during the Second World War – including copies of the newspaper Le Flambeau, a list of Jewish children hidden by the Comité de Défense des Juifs, lists of resistance fighters, documents concerning war criminals, … and many other copies documents from archives kept by various organisations and institutions in Belgium.
YV archives
Private People