Transitland Belgien - Jüdische Flüchtlinge in Westeuropa während der Zeit der Deportationen 1942
Belgium as Transdit-State - Jewish Refugees in Western Europe during the period of Deportations in 1942

Summary/Abstract: The refuge movements of Jews in the German-occupied Western Europe, in particular after the beginning of the deportations from France, the Netherlands and Belgium in the summer of 1942, are a lacuna of historical scholarship. This article focuses on Belgium as a transit country for Jewish refugees, examining the flights from the Netherlands and Belgium to the occupied part of France, further over the demarcation line to free France. While these flights cannot be compared with the organised forms of emigration, it is to be understood as a forced migration in the times of a genocide. We argue that these flights were a mass “individual survival strategy”, an expression of Jewish agency face a face to the annihilation.

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