Selected records from the city of Liège, Belgium and Environs

Identifier
irn36463
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.5
  • RG-65.013
Dates
1 Jan 1920 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
  • Dutch
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn36463

Extent and Medium

56,998 digital images, JPEG

11 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.

Archival History

Archives de la Ville de Liège

Acquisition

Cite the Archives de la Ville de Liège as holder of originals

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Archives et collections muséales de la Ville de Liège, Belgium via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project on 6 January 2009.

Scope and Content

The documents concern the Jews of Liège and contain their records as pre-war immigrants, the files on wartime refugees with press clippings giving the temporary wartime addresses of those who fled Belgium to the non-occupied zone in France, the aryanization of businesses, the Jews sent to the Dannes-Cammier internment camp, and correspondence with the elected head of the city government, the bourgmestre, during the war.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Archives de la Ville de Liège

Subjects

  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Belgium--History--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Belgium.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Belgium.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belgium.
  • Belgium--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

Genre

  • Document
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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