BG 059 Israélites.
Extent and Medium
6,40 l.m.
Creator(s)
- Comité International de la Croix-Rouge
Scope and Content
In this fonds we first of all want to point out the general series and files regarding: the persecution of, and assistance to Jews in the countries occupied by Nazi Germany and the other Axis powers; relief efforts in liberated concentration camps; “matters of principle”; individual cases; … We expect to find information on the Jewish population in Belgium in this kind of general correspondence, reports, lists etc. The following files explicitly refer to Belgium. Section “BG 59 02 [Aid and matters of principle] 1940-1961” contains a file on Belgium (file BG 59 02-020; for the year 1945). In section “BG 59 07 [Jewish and other organisations] 1940-1950” we note files on the Association des Juifs en Belgique (BG 59 07-181; for the year 1943), the Comité israélite des réfugiés victimes des lois raciales of Brussels (BG 59 07-207; year 1945), the Jewish community (congregation israélite) in Elisabethville (Lubumbashi) (BG 59 07-218; year 1944) and the Oeuvre de secours in Léopoldville (Kinshasa) (BG 59 07-279; year 1945), the latter two in the former Belgian Congo.
Finding Aids
F. BENSI, Inventaire B G 059, Israélites 1939-1961, Geneva, ACICR, 2006.
Process Info
The EHRI project, in cooperation with the National Archives of Belgium, selected Holocaust-relevant archival descriptions from the finding aid G. DESMET & P. FALEK-ALHADEFF, P.-A. TALLIER (dir.), Bronnen voor de geschiedenis van de Joden en het Jodendom in België (19de-20ste eeuw) - Sources pour l'histoire des populations juives et du judaïsme en Belgique (19e-20e siècles), Brussel, Algemeen Rijksarchief, 2015. Please note that this guide focuses on Belgium-related archival materials in the respective descriptions.
Gertjan Desmet
This archival description was created in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.
Subjects
- charity
- Congo
- religious communities
- Second World War
- Shoah