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Resistance in Belgium is the fruit of a pilot project of the State Archives in Belgium carried out by CegeSoma. This platform enables research about more than 150,000 persons who were involved in one form or another in the different resistance activities led in Belgium during the Second World War. The database contains structured and multilingual data that can be read be humans and machines and allows for simple search queries as well as advanced transversal research in a plenitude of information on the basis of a name, a date of birth, an address or the denomination of a resistance movement or network. It is geared towards the large public as well as seasoned researchers and historians, and intended as a complement to the topical portal site Belgium WWII about the Second World War in Belgium. In the long term, an even more user-friendly research interface shall be developed that enables easier acces and more thorough research in the data.