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.
Yearly meeting of the ASF Volunteers at CegeSoma
For 60 years, the ASF (Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste), an association founded by opponents of Nazism, sends each year some 170 young German volunteers to countries where the population has suffered from the crimes committed by the Nazis during the Second World War. The first ASF volunteers arrived in Belgium in 1963. Read more... |
CegeSoma presents its multiannual plan and its annual report for 2017
It is the result of various meetings with stakeholders, of which our specialized scientific committee, renewed in 2017, is the most important one. Read more... |
The Journal of Belgian History publishes a thematic issue on the history of psychiatry in Belgium The new issue (number four, 2017) of the Journal of Belgian History is a thematic issue on the history of psychiatry in Belgium, edited by Benoît Majerus (Université de Luxembourg) and Anne Roekens (Université de Namur). Read more... |
2019-2020: CegeSoma and War Heritage Institute join forces
In the context of this anniversary, CegeSoma and the War Heritage Institute concluded an agreement to promote further collaboration between the institutes. Read more... |
Acquisition – Archives of the Fraternelle du service Hotton
The service Hotton was a resistance organisation created in 1943 on the initiative of the Belgian and British authorities. Its mission: to harass the occupying forces militarily by attacking their communication channels and telecommunications. Operational from early 1944 onwards, the group made its mark on the forested area of Chimay-Couvin owing to the dynamism of its group D. Its archives, bequeathed in April 2018, document this remarkable activity. Read more... |
Report on the Young Historians’ Day at Cegesoma
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New contact addresses !
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A new digital corner!
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On 19 June, the yearly meeting of the ASF volunteers and their project partners took place in the conference room of CegeSoma.
For the first time in its history, CegeSoma presents a multiannual plan (2017-2021). 
In 2019-2020, it is exactly seventy five years since the liberation of Belgium and Europe from Nazism. 
On April 19th, 2018 CegeSoma organised the 12th edition of its workshop aimed at young historians, both those looking for a subject for their future Masters' thesis and recently graduated talents.
To improve the quality of our service, CegeSoma has two new contact addresses:
As announced in the Newsletter of November, Cegesoma continues to improve the digital access to its collections. From now on, the reading room has a digital corner completely dedicated to the digital access to the collections. Come and see our new service! 
