Cegesoma Newsletter
Welcome to CEGESOMA/State Archives of Belgium
CEGESOMA, Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Society, is the Belgian centre of excellence for the history of 20th century conflicts. It carries out research, organises public events and holds document collections. It is since 1 January 2016 the fourth Operational Directory of the State Archives. It is a platform for academic and public activities in Belgium and abroad, in particular with regard to the two World Wars.
Important notice
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Colloquium about the 75th anniversary of the Liberation and the 50th anniversary of CegeSoma
10 December 2019 – Senate Read more... |
Focus on the Resistance On 1 October 2019, the TV series 'Kinderen van het Verzet' (Children of the Resistance, broadcast as from 22 October 209) by Canvas was launched at CegeSoma. The series addresses the growing interest of society and historical research in the history and remembrance of the resistance in Belgium. CegeSoma plays a key role in this trend and we give an overview of our main 'resistance initiatives'. Read more... |
International colloquium about Linked Data (ADOCHS project)
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Fresh publications from CegeSoma associated researchers Three associated researchers of CegeSoma just published new works and a fourth researcher brought out the French translation of a book published in 2018. Read more... |
Donation of the Witte Brigade (Fidelio) archives
In 2017, we already reported on the donation of some twelve linear metres of archives from the more recently established non-profit organisation Witte Brigade (Fidelio) to CegeSoma. Read more... |
Towards a permament structure for EHRI
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Conference ‘TRANSMEMO’ (memories of collaboration and resistance)
During a full-day program TRANSMEMO will present the results of the research while political scientists, psychologists and historians will reflect on the legacy of this past. Read more... |
The heritage of the Second World War in Belgium. Future prospects for history? 
On Friday 22 November, the ADOCHS project (Auditing Digitalization Outputs in the Cultural Heritage Sector) organises an international colloquium about Linked Data at KBR (the Royal Library of Belgium). 
The Witte Brigade (Fidelio) is of significant historical relevance, as it was the only armed resistance organisation headquartered in Flanders. 
On 23 August, it was announced that funding of the European Union for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), in which the State Archives/CegeSoma are a partner, will continue. Objective of this funding is to sustain and expand its resources and activities and to enable it to become a permanent European home for international Holocaust research and collaboration.
On Thursday 3 October 2019 we will co-organize a conference of the research project TRANSMEMO in the senate of Belgium. In this project historians and psychologists investigate how Belgian families with a history of collaboration or resistance remember and experience the legacy of the Second World War. 
