Tens of thousands of biographical records on Belgian resistance fighters online from 21 October 2024!

The countdown has begun...

From 21 October 2024, a new online platform, developed by the Wikibase Resistance project, will give you progressive access to the biographical records of all women and men recognized by the Belgian state for having taken part between 1940 and 1944 in the fight against the Nazi occupiers.
By this date, over 40,000 biographical files drawn up from the archives of the Sûreté de l'Etat and relating to Belgian intelligence and action services will be revealed.

In the meantime, the work continues... We are currently completing the encoding and checking of data from all the personal files relating to resistance fighters in the underground press, which are still in the process of being entered.

But what is "Resistance through the underground press"? Belgians who obtained the status of "Resistance through the underground press" are people who volunteered within an organization for at least six months, between June 1, 1940 and June 4, 1944, to edit, print, build up depots, transport and systematically distribute press organs, leaflets, posters or announcements in conditions that exposed them to enemy reprisals.

While waiting for the big day when the platform goes online, we'll be giving you a weekly preview of what this new tool has to offer, and the many ways in which it can be exploited.

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