Institut d'Etudes du Judaïsme transcripts
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Creator(s)
- Institut d’Etudes du Judaïsme
Biographical History
The Institut d’Etudes du Judaïsme (IEJ) was recognized by royal decree in 1988 and succeeded the l'Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Judaïsme Martin Buber (IUEJ) established in 1970 by professors and researchers connected to the Universities of Brussels, Ghent, and Liege. The idea of founding an institute designed to develop the study of Judaism at the Université Libre de Bruxelles dates back to the activity of the Centre National des Hautes Etudes Juives (CNHEJ), a research institution created in Brussels in 1959 under the impetus of Max Gottschalk and Marcel Marinower at the Institute of Sociology of the Jewish State.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Institut des Études du Judaïsme, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Professor Thomas Gergely from the Institut d’Études du Judaïsme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, donated the Institut d’Etudes du Judaisme transcripts to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
Scope and Content
Institut d’Etudes du Judaïsme transcripts consist of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted as part of several documentation projects regarding the Jewish community in Belgium before, during and after World War II. Betty Garfinkels and Max Gottschalk conducted oral history interviews with Belgian Jews and Belgian rescuers for the Centre National des Hautes Etudes Juives de Bruxelles (CNHEJ) between 1964 and 1973. At the same time, Rivka Banitt from the oral history department at the Institute for Contemporary Judaism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem conducted a series of interviews with Belgian Jews, and the CNHEJ received copies. Bernard Suchecky and Daniel Dratwa conducted another oral history project in the early 1980s for the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes du Judaïsme (successor organization to the CNHEJ). Topics include Jewish refugees in Belgium, the German occupation of Belgium, resistance, rescue, hidden children, the Jewish underground, the Association des Juifs de Belgique, and the Comité de Défense des Juifs.
System of Arrangement
Institut d’Etudes du Judaïsme transcripts are arranged alphabetically by interviewee.
People
- Institut d’Etudes du Judaïsme
Subjects
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
- Holocaust survivors--Belgium.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belgium.
- Jewish refugees--Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium.
- Jews--Belgium.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--Belgium.
Genre
- Transcripts.
- Document