Belgium and the Holocaust: Jews, Belgians, GermansDan Mikhman Historical research on the Holocaust has not dealt evenly with all the persecuted Jewish communities. The fate of the Jews in Belgium has been relatively neglected. Since what little has been published or written is in either Dutch or French, the material has been largely unavailable to readers outside West Europe. This volume is the first of its kind in English. A variety of researchers from Belgium, France, and Israel discuss issues such as the make-up of Belgian Jewry before the war; Nazi anti-Jewish policies; the attitudes of various segements of Belgian society to the Jews before, during, and after the occupation; Jewish strategies and activities for survival; the problematics of reconstruction in the aftermath of the war; the contacts with the Yishuv in Palestine; emigration to the United States; and the policies of postwar commemoration. |
Contents
The Belgian Zionist Youth Movements During the Nazi Occupation | 19 |
The Zionist Kaleidoscope in Belgium | 43 |
Jewish Immigration and Communism in Belgium 19251939 | 63 |
The Attitude of the Belgian Roman Catholic Clergy Toward the Jews | 117 |
Antwerps Attitude Toward the Jews from 1918 to 1940 and | 159 |
The Belgian Catholics and the Jews During the German Occupation | 225 |
Resistance Movements and the Jewish Question | 273 |
The Attitude of the Belgian GovernmentinExile in London | 287 |
Dan Michman | 373 |
The Contacts Between the World Hechaluz Center in Geneva | 397 |
Jewish Orphanages in Belgium Under the German Occupation | 419 |
PostKristallnacht GermanJewish Refugee | 433 |
Felix Nussbaum The Impact of Persecution on the Art of | 457 |
The Jewish Brigade in Belgium | 477 |
Portrait of a Refugee Community in New York | 499 |
A Preliminary Study on How Belgian | 523 |
The Rescue of Jewish Children in Belgium During World War II | 307 |
The Fate of the Jewish Communities in the North of France | 327 |
Three Strategies for Coping | 347 |
The Contributors | 559 |
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