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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>Vereeniging der Joden in België - Association des Juifs en Belgique. Front de l'Indépendance. Collection

Association of Jews in Belgium. Independent Front. Collection</titleproper>
      </titlestmt>
      <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>
      </publicationstmt>
      <notestmt>
        <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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    </filedesc>
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      <creation>This file was exported automatically from the EHRI database administration tool and represents a work-in-progress.
        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T19:11:18.753Z</date>
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      <langusage>
        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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      <unitid>KD_00011</unitid>
      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Vereeniging der Joden in België - Association des Juifs en Belgique. Front de l'Indépendance. Collection

Association of Jews in Belgium. Independent Front. Collection</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">13,203 digitised images (4,058 documents in 42 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[This collection consists of 4,058 documents confiscated by the Front de l’Indépendance (Independent Front) at the offices of the Association of Jews in Belgium (AJB) – “Aide Spéciale Malines” [Special Assistance Mechelen department], after the liberation. The documents can be divided in five sections : - Correspondence of the AJB : between the leading committee and local committees, between local committees, between the AJB and German or Belgian officials, between the AJB and Suisse, German, French and Dutch organisations, etc. - Lists : e.g. employees of the AJB, Organisation Todt workers, Jews who received a convocation for forced labour (Arbeitseinsatzbefehl), packages and letters delivered to the Dossin barracks, etc. - Documents of the subdivisions responsible for education, interventions, “Aide Spéciale Malines”, social welfare, emigration, etc. - Correspondence and documents regarding the activities of the “Aide Spéciale Malines” department. - Financial files and accounting : salaries of the Organisation Todt workers, clearings, liquidations, budget, financial gifts, membership fees, etc.]]></p>
    </scopecontent>
    <arrangement encodinganalog="3.3.4">
      <p><![CDATA[A rudimentary inventory on file level is available upon request.]]></p>
    </arrangement>
    <altformavail encodinganalog="3.5.2">
      <p><![CDATA[Digital copy available as collection KD_00011 at Kazerne Dossin]]></p>
    </altformavail>
    <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
      <p><![CDATA[A rudimentary inventory on file level is available upon request.]]></p>
    </otherfindaid>
    <accruals encodinganalog="3.3.3">
      <p><![CDATA[No further accruals are expected]]></p>
    </accruals>
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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>
  </archdesc>
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