WEB SITES
53 avenue de Boetendael, Boite 9
B-1180 Bruxelles
[email protected]
BRUSSELS
Jewish Museum of Belgium/ Musée Juif de Belgique / Joods Museum van Belgie
Rue des Minimes 21
B-1000 Brussels
phone: +32-2-5121963
fax: +32-2-5134859
[email protected]
Center of Jewish-Moroccan Culture
Place Jean Vander Elst, 19/21
1180 Brussels
+32 477 29 10 43
[email protected]
The Center’s main objective is to collect, preserve and disseminate the memory of the various Jewish communities of Morocco and knowledge of traditional Jewish life and its evolution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It manages the collection Dahan Hirsch, one of the largest collections of Moroccan Judaism in the world. Digitized images of the collection has been uploaded to Judaica Europeana.
ELSEWHERE IN BELGIUM
ANTWERP
Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp
Vrijdagmarkt 22-23
2000 Antwerpen
Tel. +32 (0)3 221 14 50
Fax. +32 (0)3 221 14 71
E-mail: [email protected]
Museum of printing history with a large collection of Hebrew books dating back to the 16th century.
Province of Antwerp Diamond Museum
Koningin Astridplein 19-23
2018 Antwerp
Tel: +32 (0)3 202 48 90
Fax: +32 (0)3 202 48 98
MECHELEN
KazerneDossin – Memorial Museum and Documentation Center on the Holocaust and Human Rights
Goswin de Stassartstraat 153
B-2800 Mechelen
Tel: + 32 (0) 15 29 06 60
Fax: + 32 (0) 15 29 08 76
E-Mail: [email protected]
A museum/memorial/documentation center that opened Dec. 1, 2012 near the Dossin barracks, an 18th century building with courtyards connected directly to the Belgian rail network that was used as a transit camp by Nazi occupiers between 1942 and 1944. Belgian and German police concentrated thousands of Jews here for deportation to Auschwitz. The museum building is made of 25,852 bricks, representing the known number of Jews and Roma sent to their deaths at Auschwitz from the Dossin barracks.
WILLEBROEK
Breendonk Concentration Camp Memorial Museum
Fort Breendonk
Brandstraat, 57
B-2830-Willebroek
BELGIUM