Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

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Documentation regarding the activity of the Association des Juifs de Belgique (AJB - Jewish Belgian Association), the Comite de Defense des Juifs (CDJ - Committee for the Defense of Jews) and the Poalei Zion Party, and a report regarding the activity of various German personalities in the German administration in Belgium, 1946-1967 - Correspondence between Roger D. Katz, President of the Federation Nationale des Anciens Combattants et Resistants Juifs de Belgique (FNACRJB - National Association of Jewish War Veterans and Underground Fighters in Belgium) and President of the Belgian Yad Vashem Committee with...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Testimony, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : French, English

Testimonies before the military court in Brussels regarding the conduct of the Association des Juifs de Belgique (AJB - Jewish Belgian Association) and protocols from the organization's executive meetings, 1942-1946 - Testimony of Chaim Perelman, a professor at the University of Brussels, at the trial of the AJB directors including Ullmann and Benedictus, 19 November 1946: Misconduct of the AJB from the time of its establishment, on November 1941-September 1942; activity of the AJB from then was limited to lobbying with the German authorities on behalf of the Jews and to social work (pp. 1-16); -...

File Number : 53

Type of Material : Reports, Testimony, Legal Documentation

Language : French

Letters sent by the Union des Anciens Resistants Juifs de Belgique (Union of Veteran Jewish Resistance Fighters in Belgium) and the Comite d'Action de la Resistance (CAR - The Resistance Action Committee) to the Secretary of the World Jewish Congress in France, 1966 - Letters sent by G. Jospa and Ch. Pasternak, the Presidents of the Union des Anciens Resistants Juifs de Belgique and the President and General Secretary of CAR to the Secretary of the World Jewish Congress in Paris regarding the question of whether the Comite de Defense des Juifs (CDJ - Jewish Defense Committee) was the only underground group...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Letter, Official Documentation

Language : French

Documentation containing testimonies and documents regarding the Comite de Defense des Juifs (CDJ - Committee for the Rescue of Jews) in Belgium compiled by Rene de Lathouwer, 1947-1951, and appendices, 1942-1968 - Review report from Rene de Lathouwer: Introduction (pp. 5-6); diagram of the CDJ building (p. 7); first steps towards the Final Solution; establishment of the Association des Juifs en Belgique (AJB - Belgian Jews Association); Razzias [round-ups]; undergrounds; the CDJ and its departments (intelligence and propaganda, finances, children, help for the elderly, help for partisans, forged...

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Survey Report, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Lists, Letter, Reports, Personal Documents

Language : French

Documentation regarding the underground activity of David Roger Katz and his position regarding the question of the existence of an independent Jewish underground in Belgium during the German occupation, 1944-1982 - Article published in the "Neue Presse" newspaper, May 1966, containing an attack against Katz by the "Committee of Former Jewish Resistance Fighters Organization in Belgium" regarding Katz denying the existence of an independent Jewish underground in Belgium in an article he published in the Yiddish newspaper, "Unzer Wort" ("Our Word"), reply by the editorial board, June 1966 ([pp....

File Number : 11

Type of Material : Documents, Biography, Official Documentation

Language : French, Dutch, Yiddish

Documentation created in Belgium from a file requesting recognition of Arthur Rechtwag, born in Bolechov, 1903, a Belgian Resistance activist who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, as a "Political Prisoner" Documentation from a file requesting declaration of Arthur Rechtwag as a "Political Prisoner": - Questionnaire from the Oeuvre nationale des anciens combattants, déportés et prisonniers politiques de la guerre (National Organization of Veterans, Deportees and Political Prisoners of the War 1914-1918) in Brussels completed by Arthur Rechtwag in Brussels, 01 July 1946, in order to be declared a...

File Number : 1142

Type of Material : Reports, Protocol, Declaration, Letter, Questionnaire

Language : French

Memoirs of Yaakov Lerner, born in Ojeva in 1911, and the experiences of Etia Brena Lerner (maiden name: Kogan) born in Romania, and additional documentation concerning them

Memoirs of Yaakov Lerner, born in Ojeva in 1911, and the experiences of Etia Brena Lerner (maiden name: Kogan) born in Romania, and additional documentation concerning them Iasha Yaakov Lerner's move from Ojeva to Secureni; joining Hashomer Hatzair and later a communist underground movement; imprisonment in a prison in Iași due to communist underground activity in 1929; escape to Mogilev-Podolski and Omsk in 1931 and work in Sovkhuz near Omsk; transfer to Berdichev and the Ural region in 1936; imprisonment in Novosibirsk and Yakutsk by the NKVD in 1938, on the grounds of spying for Romania; transfer to...

File Number : 11892

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, English, Romanian, Russian