Overview
- Description
- Contains records of the Brusseler Treuhandgesellschaft. This organization was founded by the German occupiers in October 1940 as an "anonymous corporation" that seized control of enemy goods, including bank accounts and real estate. These documents provide an account of how the Jews residing in Belgium were looted by the German regime.
- Date
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inclusive:
1940-1982
- Collection Creator
- Brüsseler Treuhandgesellschaft
- Biography
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Brüsseler Treuhandgesellschaft (BTG) was founded in October 12, 1940 by the German Military Administration in Belgium. The BTG was active in a first phase in the search for enemy and Jewish goods and possessions. In a second phase, BTG was responsible for the centralization, administration, and liquidation of these assets.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Extent
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162,667 digital images : JPEG ; 130 GB.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- USHMM will not give, transfer or sell a copy of those collections to third institutions without prior permission by the director of the Archives generales du Royaume. No publication on Internet or equivalent without express permission of source archive. Third parties are on notice (and the Museum must make reasonable efforts to notify them) that they are under the same obligation, and also that they must obtain written consent of the source archive before using copies for commercial purposes and are liable to payment of license fees to source archive in such case.
- Copyright Holder
- Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Archives générales du Royaume, Belgium (National Archives of Belgium). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the National Archives of Belgium via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in Aug. 2012.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-05-22 15:23:56
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