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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>Vereeniging der Joden in België - Association des Juifs en Belgique. Institut Martin Buber. Collection

Association of Jews in Belgium. Martin Buber Institute. Collection</titleproper>
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      <publicationstmt>
        <publisher>Kazerne Dossin: Mémorial, Musée et Centre de Documentation sur l’Holocauste et les Droits de l’Homme / Kazerne Dossin: Memoriaal, Museum en Documentatiecentrum over Holocaust en Mensenrechten</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>Goswin de Stassartstraat 153</addressline>
          <addressline>2800</addressline>
          <addressline>Mechelen</addressline>
          <addressline>BE</addressline>
          <addressline>(+32) 15 29 06 60</addressline>
          <addressline>(+32) 15 29 08 76</addressline>
          <addressline>https://www.kazernedossin.eu/EN/</addressline>
          <addressline>info@kazernedossin.eu</addressline>
          <addressline>archives@kazernedossin.eu</addressline>
          <addressline>Belgium</addressline>
        </address>
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        <note>
          <p>This encoded description is derived from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution but may differ in structure and/or content from its source. The collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.</p>
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        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T19:11:23.475Z</date>
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      <langusage>
        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Vereeniging der Joden in België - Association des Juifs en Belgique. Institut Martin Buber. Collection

Association of Jews in Belgium. Martin Buber Institute. Collection</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">74,258 digitised images (3,497 documents in 118 boxes)</physdesc>
      <repository>
        <corpname>Kazerne Dossin: Mémorial, Musée et Centre de Documentation sur l’Holocauste et les Droits de l’Homme / Kazerne Dossin: Memoriaal, Museum en Documentatiecentrum over Holocaust en Mensenrechten</corpname>
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      <p><![CDATA[The archives of the Association of Jews in Belgium (AJB), donated to the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance by the Martin Buber Institute, contain almost 3,500 documents which cover over 40 topics, including : copies of German decrees, the statutes and procedures of the AJB, files of the general and local committees (Brussels, Antwerp, Liège and smaller cities), interventions by the AJB with the German authorities, population registration, Jewish schools and children’s homes, the Arbeitseinsatz (forced labour) for Organisation Todt (France), convocations for the SS-Sammellager Mecheln / Dossin barracks (including release or visit requests), correspondence received from camps in the east, Jewish property and economy, elderly and childcare, mixed marriages and research on Arian descent, Jews with special status (Hungarian, Russian and Turkish), social welfare, prisons, the Breendonk camp, Commission for Public Aid, the German-Palestinian exchange, correspondence with organisations or persons abroad, with the Public Safety Office and with Belgian authorities, interventions, the Jewish Placing Service, Red Cross, Winter Aid, financial records, contributions, gifts, Sperrstunden Ausweiss, German documents and post-war documents. The collection also includes the journal of AJB leader Salomon Van den Berg and a report by AJB leader Maurice Benedictus on the situation of Jews in Belgium in 1940-1942.]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[The files were organised per topic. A rudimentary inventory on file level is available upon request.]]></p>
    </arrangement>
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      <p><![CDATA[Digital copy available as collection KD_00010 at Kazerne Dossin]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[A rudimentary inventory on file level is available upon request. Item descriptions were drafted by dr. Laurence Schram.]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[No further accruals are to be expected]]></p>
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      <p><![CDATA[The archive of the Association of Jews in Belgium (AJB) was physically divided into three units during and after the war. A copy of the original membership forms is now part of the Fonds Beeckmans, stored at the Cegesoma in Brussels (KD_00009). The files of the AJB Service Special Assistance Mechelen (Dossin barracks) were in 1944 seized by the Belgian resistance, (Independent Front), were stored at the Nationel Museum of the Resistance (NMR) in Brussels and are now stored at Kazerne Dossin (KD_00011). The remaining organisational files of the AJB were stored by the "Centre National des Hautes Etudes Juives - Institut Martin Buber", before being transferred to the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (KD_00010). The JMDR has digitised all three collections and thus tries to digitally restore the original AJB archives.]]></p>
    </relatedmaterial>
    <controlaccess>
      <subject>Jewish organisations</subject>
      <subject>Judenrat</subject>
    </controlaccess>
    <controlaccess>
      <geogname>Belgium</geogname>
    </controlaccess>
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