Translations:FAQ/24/en

This may be due to different reasons:

• First, not all data are available online yet: Four publishing phases
  are scheduled between 2024 and 2027.
• Second, in compliance with data protection legislation (GDPR), only data about persons who are deceased or persons whose date of birth – dating back 100 years or more – suggests that the person is now deceased are published on the plateform.
• Third, maybe the person in question – or his/her relatives if the person died during the war – did not file a request to obtain the status of resistance fighter despite having carried out interventions during the war to harm the occupant. This is notably the case for most foreigners, for which it was very difficult or even impossible to obtain the status of resistance fighter, for women who, for cultural reasons, deemed it not necessary to undertake these steps towards recognition, and for many less-educated people who were discuraged by the complexity of the administrative formalities to be completed. Consequently, no files were opened about these persons.
• Fourth, some files may be lost.
• Fifth, only the data from the files held by the State Archives can be fed to the Wikibase Resistance database. Yet, several armed resistance movements such as Armée de la Libération, Armée secrète, Milices patriotiques and Partisans armés du Front de l’indépendance, Mouvement national belge did not tranfer the personal files of their members to the State Archives (this is also partly the case for service D). As private organisations these movements are indeed not obliged to hand over their records to the State Archives.
• Finally, we invite you to try out other search terms: Maybe a person was recorded under her maiden name or a different spelling of the name. If the issue persists, you can always contact us.