Overview
- Description
- This collection concerns the diamond trade in Belgium between 1935 and 1946. The collection traces the looting of Jewish diamond traders, organized and centralized through the so-called Devisenschütz-Kommando, which ultimately expropriated property worth an estimated 72 million Belgian francs. The collection is organized into personal and subject files.
- Date
-
inclusive:
1935-1946
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Extent
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233,916 digital images : JPEG ; 69.7 GB.
53 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.
3 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Divided into two parts: Personal (roughly a third of the collection), and subject-related files.
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.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Diamond industry and trade--Belgium--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Belgium. Jews--Belgium--Antwerp. World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--Belgium. World War, 1939-1945--Belgium--Antwerp.
- Geographic Name
- Belgium--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Antwerp (Belgium)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Belgian National Archives.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Belgian National Archives via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in June 2009.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:44:48
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn37364
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