Collection GB 1556 WL 1316 - Report regarding the rescue of Jewish children in Belgium (1944)

1 file

The document having been mislaid for many years resurfaced shortly prior to deposit.

GB 1556 WL 1316 1944 collection 1 file Heiber , Maurice , fl 1942-1944

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.

The document having been mislaid for many years resurfaced shortly prior to deposit.

Deposited by Enid Wistrich.

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.

Arranged in chronological order.

Open

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

English and French

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

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.

February 2008 Age distribution Age groups Anti-fascist movements Belgium Childhood Children Committee for the Defense of Belgian Jews Europe Heiber , Maurice , fl 1942-1944 Humanitarian law Jews Judenrat , Belgium x Jewish Council Nazism Occupied territories Oppression Political doctrines Political movements Protest movements Religious groups Resistance to oppression Third Reich Totalitarianism Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events)

Deposited by Enid Wistrich.

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.

Arranged in chronological order.

Open

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

• anglais

• latin

English and French

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

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.

• anglais