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The Museum Acquires Gestapo Data
The Mechelen Museum of Deportation and the Resistance in Malines, the central institution for Holocaust research in Belgium, has presented the Museum with a data base containing information on 10,000 people of Jewish origin who lived in Belgium during the Nazi occupation.
The data base contains the names, dates of birth, birthplaces, nationality, and occupation of these individuals. The data base was compiled using personal information files on Jews. The files were in the Gestapo archives in Antwerp. Almost 3,000 of the persons concerned came to Belgium from Poland before the outbreak of the war.
Representatives of the Belgian museum also announced that they will soon turn over lists of names and other information on 25,000 people deported to Auschwitz from the transit camp in Malines.
The new data, including scans of the original Gestapo files, will be available to researchers and victims' families at the Archives and Computer Section of the Auschwitz Museum. Users will be able to locate information by using a special search engine in three languages—English, French, and Flemish. The original card file belongs to Jewish charitable organizations in Antwerp
