Correspondence with Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre (AVIG)

Identifier
3000/9/1/46
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
File
Languages
  • German
  • French
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

21 letters

Biographical History

Founded in 1944, the remit of (AIVG) was to provide assistance in all aspects of Jewish rehabilitation in Belgium. This included medical aid, employment services, loan and credit opportunities, legal assistance with restitution claims, a missing persons service, a repatriation service and the maintenance of numerous children's homes. See Dratwa, D., ‘Genocide and its Memories: A preliminary study on how Belgian Jewry coped with the results of the Holocaust’, in D. Michman (ed.), , Jerusalem, Yad Vashem,1998, pp. 523-59.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, primarily with AVIG’s deputy director Karl Zeilinger, regarding the organisation’s support of The Wiener Library’s eyewitness testimony project in Belgium. This includes establishing contact with the , which held numerous accounts of Belgian Holocaust survivors, and assistance in clarifying the terms of conducting research at this institution.

Conditions Governing Access

open

Related Units of Description

  • For information about the eyewitness testimony project and access to the compiled reports see the .

People

  • Zeilinger, Karl

Corporate Bodies

  • Ministère de la Santé Publique
  • Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre

Subjects

  • Governmental institutions
  • Personal narratives
  • Survivors
  • Jewish organisations

Places

  • Belgium
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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