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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>Give Them a Face portrait collection. 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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    <profiledesc>
      <creation>This file was exported automatically from the EHRI database administration tool and represents a work-in-progress.
        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T19:21:20.095Z</date>
      </creation>
      <langusage>
        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <did>
      <unitid>KD_00017</unitid>
      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Give Them a Face portrait collection. Collection</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">over 19,650 digitised images (individual photos)</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>
      </repository>
    </did>
    <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
      <p><![CDATA[This collection contains over 19,650 portraits of Roma, Sinti and Jewish men, women and children from Belgium and the north of France, whom have been deported from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen and Vittel between August 1942 and July 1944.]]></p>
    </scopecontent>
    <arrangement encodinganalog="3.3.4">
      <p><![CDATA[Numerical per transport]]></p>
    </arrangement>
    <altformavail encodinganalog="3.5.2">
      <p><![CDATA[Yad Vashem and the USHMM (RG-65.024/2014.13)]]></p>
    </altformavail>
    <originalsloc encodinganalog="3.5.1">
      <p><![CDATA[State Archives, Brussels and other institutes or collections]]></p>
    </originalsloc>
    <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
      <p><![CDATA[The name index of the Give Them a Face portrait collection is accessible at the Kazerne Dossin documentation center. It was also published in : ADRIAENS Ward e.a., Mecheln-Auschwitz, 1942-1944. List of names of the deportees, vol. IV, Brussels, 2009.]]></p>
    </otherfindaid>
    <accruals encodinganalog="3.3.3">
      <p><![CDATA[Newly found pictures will be added upon digitisation.]]></p>
    </accruals>
    <phystech encodinganalog="3.4.4">
      <p><![CDATA[Digitally stored at Kazerne Dossin]]></p>
    </phystech>
    <relatedmaterial encodinganalog="3.5.3">
      <p><![CDATA[95% of all photos in the Give them a Face portrait collection were retrieved from the immigration file of the deportees, kept by the immigration authorities and currently stored at the State Archives, Brussels. The complete files were digitised by the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, and are catalogued as collection KD_00014. A second important source are the Relics, documents left behind at the SS-Sammellager Mecheln by the deportees which were deported via transports XX to XXVI, digitised by Kazerne Dossin and catalogued as collection KD_00005.]]></p>
    </relatedmaterial>
    <controlaccess>
      <subject>Deportees</subject>
      <subject>Holocaust survivors</subject>
      <subject>Escape</subject>
      <subject>Sondertransporte</subject>
      <subject>Repatriation</subject>
      <subject>Transit camps</subject>
    </controlaccess>
  </archdesc>
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