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Territorial Photographic Collection.
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- USA / YIVO / RG 120
- English
- ca. 15 l.m.
- Updated 6 years ago
The Territorial Photographic Collection contains photographs of Jewish life in more than 65 different countries. There is a series concerning Belgium, totalling 57 folders. Folders “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Antwerp I”, “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Antwerp II”, “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Antwerp III” and “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Antwerp IV” contain portraits of people wearing the yellow star. In folders “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Brussels 1”, “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Brussels 2” and “Belgium 1940-1944 photo Brussels 3, 4” we resp. find group portraits of students of a Jewish school (before the deport...
Territorial Collection.
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- USA / YIVO / RG 116
- English
- ca. 100 l.m.
- Updated 6 years ago
This fonds contains a subseries on Belgium, totalling 54 folders. They contain various archival material (correspondence, reports, leaflets, …) and printed matter. We note the following file descriptions, cited verbatim from the folder list: “Experience of Belgian Jews during the war. Catalog of a 1946 exhibiton entitled Crimes Hitlérien May 25-June 30 1946” (nr. 1), “2 copies of SD 1942 report on Belgian Jews and the measures against them” (nr. 2), “Wartime identity cards. School Reports by Jewish students”(nr. 3), “Part of burned Torah” (nr. 4), “Anti-Semitic articles in the Brüsseler Zei...
Eyewitness Accounts of the Holocaust. Collection, 1939-1945.
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- USA / YIVO / RG 104
- English
- ca. 7 l.m. (over 1900 testimonies).
- Updated 6 years ago
This collection consists of over 1900 testimonies written by Holocaust survivors, documenting their experiences in occupied Europe in the years 1939-1945. The testimonies are often very extensive, numbering in the dozens of pages. There are three series, corresponding with efforts to collect testimonies undertaken in the immediate postwar years (Series I), in 1954 (Series II) and since the 1960s (Series III). Testimonies with reference to Belgium are especially found in Series I. These testimonies were collected in displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria, Italy and also in Poland and ot...

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Territorial Photographic Collection.

Territorial Collection.

Eyewitness Accounts of the Holocaust. Collection, 1939-1945.