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Belgium

Overview

Many of the Belgian collections concern US relief activities in German-occupied Belgium during World War I, especially those headed by Herbert Hoover. Other collections relate to Belgium under German occupation in World War II, politics, and the labor movement in Belgium during the twentieth century.

Commission For Relief In Belgium (1914–30) Records

Private organization for provision of relief to Belgium during World War I

Edward Eyre Hunt Papers

Member, Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1914–16

Brand Whitlock Papers

US ambassador to Belgium, 1913–22

Belgian Subject Collection

Miscellaneous materials

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Hoover Institution Tapestry Unveiled in Belgium

A work of art by Belgian artist Floris Jespers was unveiled today at the Leuven Museum as part of its exhibition Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict, commemorating the centenary of the beginning of World War I and the devastation it brought to Leuven.

March 20, 2014
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