Selected records of the Royal Belgian Archive

Identifier
irn523533
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.498
  • RG-65.011M
Dates
1 Jan 1807 - 31 Dec 1945, 1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
  • Dutch
  • German
  • Flemish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn523533

Extent and Medium

757 digital images, JPEG

41 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Archival History

Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Archives Générales du Royaume via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Programs Division in November 2005.

Scope and Content

Contains clandestine underground bulletins, newsletters and other publications selected from the Royal Belgian Archive's Inventory 253. Also contains records of the Belgian Communist Party, papers of René Greindl (wartime governor of the Luxembourg province), an inventory of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, and records concerning the German occupation administration in Belgium, the Belgian National Movement in Luxembourg, partisan armies, the battle of the Ardennes, the Feldkommandatura in Bastogne, and the situation in the Luxembourg province.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belgium.
  • Belgium--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Sources.
  • Anti-Nazi movement--Belgium.
  • Belgium--History--Sources.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground literature--Belgium--Sources.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Press coverage--Belgium.

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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