Soma report La Belgique docile/Gewillig België again in he forefrontMore than four and a half years after the presentation of the Soma report Docile Belgium in the Belgian Senate, a new proposal of resolution has been introduced “to acknowledge the responsibility of the Belgian authorities for the persecution of the Jews in Belgium”. Click here to consult it.Read more... |
Special offer In the spring of 2012, the Ceges-Soma will move part of its collections to the new depot in the rue de Belgrade in Saint-Gilles. For this reason, we are holding a stock sale: the interesting documentary study of the former resistance fighter Marcel Franckson, Zélateurs & stipendiés des nazis en Fagne & Thiérache. Dissection socio-psychologique sur le terrain, 1943-1944, Brussels, Les Amis du CEGES / De Vrienden van het SOMA, 2009, 57 p., is offered at the price of 5 € (postage cost not included), in stead of 9 €.To order, click here. |
If you are a researcher working on the Holocaust, please take the time to help us out! EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) is conducting a quick survey in order to find out how Holocaust researchers discover and use information. The findings of our survey will contribute to the specification of the planned digital infrastructure for Holocaust research at a European level. Read more... |
The 44th Newsletter of the Ceges-Soma has been published!
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« Ils ont pris les armes pour Hitler » republished as a pocket editionThe study of Flore Plisnier on the armed collaboration in francophone Belgium was published under the scholarly supervision of the Ceges/Soma. The book was a great success and the French edition was rapidly sold out. We are particularly pleased to announce the republication of the French edition. Click here to order. |
The Ceges/Soma calls for a real debate on collaboration and repressionDuring the last two weeks, the question of amnesty has once again been the centre of attention. The awkward declarations of the Minister of Justice, following the consideration of the amnesty proposal of the Vlaams Belang, have brutally revived the issue of the repression of the collaboration. The many contradictory and emotional reactions that followed show again how much, after seventy years, the past has yet to be dealt with. More than ever, these reactions are placed in an interpretative scheme linked to the community question.Read more... |
The archive of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg goes onlineRecently, the launch of the database “Cultural plunder by the Einsatzstab Rosenberg: database of art objects at the Jeu de Paume” (www.errproject.org/jeudepaume) was announced in the press. This database is especially useful for the restitution of art objects, in particular paintings, to possible claimants or to their descendants. However, in the wake of this new database, the completion of another project, especially useful for the historian, must be mentioned. It concerns the online publication of hundreds of thousands digitised ERR-documents kept in the Central State Archives of Ukraine in Kiev (http://tsdavo.org.ua) and in the Bundesarchiv Koblenz (click here) and Berlin (click here).Read more... |
