Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1940-1945 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
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.
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Archival history
GB 1556 WL 825 1940-1945 collection 1 folder Committee for Jewish Defence
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.
Bronia Veitch, Nov 1989.
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).
Alphabetical
Open
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
French
Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
The originals of this copy documentation are held at the archives of the Ministère de la Sante Publique et de la Famille.
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Mar 2008 Age distribution Age groups Antifascism Belgium Childhood Children Europe Humanitarian law Jewish Defence Committee, Belgium Jews Nazism Occupied territories Oppression Political doctrines Political movements Religious groups Resistance to oppression Third Reich Totalitarianism Western Europe
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bronia Veitch, Nov 1989.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Alphabetical
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
Language and script notes
French
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
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Existence and location of copies
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- Age distribution
- Age distribution » Age groups
- Age distribution » Age groups » Childhood
- Age distribution » Age groups » Childhood » Children
- Humanitarian law
- Religious groups » Jews
- Political doctrines » Totalitarianism » Nazism
- Humanitarian law » Occupied territories
- Political movements » Oppression
- Political doctrines
- Political movements
- Religious groups
- Political movements » Oppression » Resistance to oppression
- Political doctrines » Totalitarianism
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Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English