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Lists of Jewish children in Belgium

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 825

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Lists of Jewish children in Belgium

Date(s): 1940-1945

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Committee for Jewish Defence

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Comité de defense de Juifs (Committee for Jewish Defence, CJD) worked with the national resistance movement and was the largest Jewish defence movement in Belgium during World War Two. The organisation hid Jews, fought as partisans, forged identity papers and food ration tickets, obtained funds and set up escape routes. In the cultural realm, CJD distributed information and propaganda material, established a lending library, and maintained a Jewish press, printing in Yiddish, French and Flemish.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of lists of hidden Jewish children and their guardians in Belgium during the Nazi occupation, 1940-1945, created by the Comité de defense de Juifs (Jewish Defence Committee).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

Alphabetical

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Finding aids:

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bronia Veitch, Nov 1989.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

The originals of this copy documentation are held at the archives of the Ministère de la Sante Publique et de la Famille.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.