IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1316
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Report regarding the rescue of Jewish children in Belgium (1944)
Date(s): 1944
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Heiber | Maurice | fl 1942-1944
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Maurice Heiber founded an organisation to save Jewish children in Belgium. He worked both for the Judenrat (Jewish Council) in Belgium's children's department (AJB) and for the Committee for the Defense of Belgian Jews (CDJ) as a special emissary. He managed the children's department for the CDJ, 1942. Heiber transferred a copy of the card index containing the names of all 'official' Jews from the AJB to the CDJ and visited these homes with persuasive proposals for hiding children.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Report regarding the rescue of Jewish children in Belgium, 1944, comprise a photocopy of a translation of a report by Maurice Heiber detailing his exploits saving Jewish children in Belgium, translated by his niece, Enid Wistrich. Report entitled The Resistance and 'Save the Children' in Brussels describing the work of Maurice Heiber, notably his setting up of an organisation to save Jewish children. Also a copy of the French journal Revue du Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, December 1968, with reference to some of Maurice Heiber's work.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and French
System of arrangement:
Arranged in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
The document having been mislaid for many years resurfaced shortly prior to deposit.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by Enid Wistrich.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2008