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Archival guide on Judaism and the Jewish populations in Belgium (19th-20th centuries)

Fr_en

02:50pm
Duration: 40 mn

17

JULY

2012

Belgium

Resources

Sources with regard to Judaism and the Jewish populations in Belgium are numerous. Unfortunately, they are often overlooked or even unknown, and scattered over a large number of private and public institutions. Belgian and foreign researchers and genealogists have been deploring the absence of a scientific instrument providing them with a survey of the available source material. Therefore, the State Archives decided to publish an archival source guide. This guide will correspond to three main objectives: (1) the duty to maintain our collective memory; (2) a fundamental support of scientific research; and (3) a substantial support of genealogical research.

If one of the main goals of this project is to discover new source material, another objective aims to point out well-known fonds that were not used yet in order to study the Jewish populations in Belgium. The archives of the Alien Registration Office are extremely rich, there is a file for every foreigner who entered in Belgium, as well as general thematic files. One should also look at other fonds providing us with information on individuals, such as domiciliation requests, requests for name change and for changing nationality. Aforementioned records are real genealogical goldmines.

The individual forms filled in by each enterprise, for the economic census of 1930 constitute another interesting source. They provide us with many details concerning smaller or bigger firms in Belgium (such as the name of the owner, his nationality, the number of employees, what kind of products were sold or made, etc) and are important sources for socio-economic historical research. Other fonds are vital for studying the Holocaust and post-war reconstruction in Belgium, such as the archives of the Brüsseler Treuhandgesellschaft, archives of Receiver and the different archives concerning war damage.

We strongly believe that by underlining the existence and significance of new or lost archives, and by focusing on a broad timeframe (1795 – 1983), high quality, innovative research on the history of the Jewish community in Belgium will be made possible and genealogical research will be facilitated.

 

Speaker Location
Pascale FALEK-ALHADEFF
Gertjan DESMET
 Seine A

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