Database gathers information on Belgian resistance activities during WWII
Eighty years after the liberation of Belgium and the end of World War II, a new database brings together all information on the resistance activities during World War II in Belgium. The national resistance database is the result of a pilot project run by expertise centre CegeSoma and the State Archives of Belgium.
On the Resistance in Belgium platform, anyone can research resistance activities in Belgium during World War II. There are already numerous scientific and social initiatives around the history of the resistance, but the new platform makes all information available online for the first time.
The project is part of the mission and social role of CegeSoma, the Belgian centre of expertise on 20th-century conflicts.
The platform contains information on more than 42,000 people on whom the state security services produced a file related to the Intelligence and Action Services. New data will be added and the database will eventually include information on more than 200,000 people, drawn from more than 350,000 individual files.
The platform, resistanceinbelgium.be, is intended for the general public but also meets the needs of research and analysis. It completes the thematic portal developed by CegeSoma on World War II in Belgium, called Belgium WWII.
A ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Liège © BELGA PHOTO BRUNO FAHY
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