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Selected papers of Marcel Nyns

Document | Accession Number: 2011.35 | RG Number: RG-65.018M

Contains selected papers of Marcel Nyns and the Secretaires Generaux (Committee of Secretary-generals), the highest representation of the Belgian administration under German occupation. This department was responsible for education, including the implementation of excluding Jews from the educational system under German occupation. Records include correspondence, minutes, and reports relating to the faith of the Jews living in occupied Belgium, especially concerning their education.

Date
inclusive:  1914-1959
Language
French
Flemish
Genre/Form
Minutes.
Reports.
Correspondence.
Extent
13,288 digital images : JPEG ; 65.0 GB.
25 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.

About This Document

Document Creator
Comité des secrétaires généraux
Marcel Nyns
Biography
Marcel Nyns was the Secretary-General in 1944, and one of the politicians who formed a provisional or “replacement” government in Belgium during the German occupation of 1940-1944.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic. Organization of main files: File 91: Records focusing on Jews, civil servants, particularly education for Jews, 1940-1942; File 113: Records relating to collaboration, purification, punishment, monitoring ( press clippings), 1944-1950; File 127: records concerning education for Jews, 1942.
Reference
Inventory: Thielemans, M.R. and Vleeschouwers.C. Inventaire des archives de Marcel Nyns. Brussels (Série: Instruments de recherche à tirage limité 411), 1996. See inventory numbers 35 and 127.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Source of acquisition is the Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium), records created and collected by Marcel Nyns during German occupation.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in Jan. 2011.

Rights and 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
Archival fair use only. 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. See contractual .

Copyright Holder
Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium)
 
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