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Language of Description: English
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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Collection of the Jewish community of Pekela, the Netherlands, 1940-1942

    Collection of the Jewish community of Pekela, the Netherlands, 1940-1942 Protocols of meetings of the members of the Nederlands-Israëlitische Gemeente (Netherlands Jewish community) in Pekela in the Groningen province of the Netherlands, 1940-1942; the protocols, from the archive of the Jewish community in Pekela, include in most part reports regarding the financial administration of the community, and only in individual cases is there mention of anti-Jewish measures by the Nazi rulers; registration of the protocols ceased in late 1942, following the large Razzia (round-up) on the night of ...

  2. M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (Jewish Coordination Committee-JCC) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1960

    M.16 - Collection of the Joodsche Coordinatie Commissie (JCC-Jewish Coordination Committee) of Dutch Jewry in Geneva, 1943-1945 The Coordination Committee for the Jews of the Netherlands in Switzerland was established in 1943 at the initiative of several of the Dutch refugees in Switzerland, including Mr. M. Gans. The owner of a jewelry and antiquities business in Amsterdam, Gans had escaped from the Netherlands to Switzerland with his wife in the summer of 1942. The Committee mainly dealt with offering assistance (by sending parcels of food and medicine) to deportees from the Netherlands i...

  3. Collection of the Kabinet van het Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken (Cabinet for Internal and Foreign Affairs) of the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Kabinet van het Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken (Cabinet for Internal and Foreign Affairs) of the Netherlands, 1940-1944 Dutchman Karel Johannes Frederiks was the secretary general of the German leadership in the Netherlands, the Afdeling Kabinet, during 1940-1945. In order to rescue some of the Jews in the Netherlands, Frederiks proposed to the Germans to administer a list of privileged Jews who would be permitted to reside in three designated areas in the Gelderland region; Frederiks, along with the secretary general of the Ministry of Education, composed lists of 675...

  4. Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam - Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1950

    Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam - Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1950 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam, regarding anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1950; Documents regarding archives of Jewish businesses after the war; Correspondence by the Kamer van Koophandel Rotterdam with Jewish businesses in the Netherlands after the war.

  5. Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor's-Gravenhage (Bureau of Commerce and Industry) in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1941

    Collection of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor's-Gravenhage (Bureau of Commerce and Industry) in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1941 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor's-Gravenhage (Bureau of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands) in 1941, regarding the registration of Jewish-owned land.

  6. Collection of the Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Le-Ezrat Ha-Yeled, Help to the Child) organization, the Netherlands, 1945-1964

    Collection of the Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Le-Ezrat Ha-Yeled, Help to the Child) organization, the Netherlands, 1945-1964 The Jewish non-profit organization, Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled (Help to the Child), was established after the war with the aim of taking care of Jewish foster children; the children were hurled into a sensitive situation concerning their Judaism, being that many of them had lived in non-Jewish surroundings while in hiding places during the years of the occupation in the Netherlands; in order to restore the children's identity, the non-profit organization Le-Ezrath Ha-Jeled was active...

  7. Collection of the Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs), regarding the treatment of the Jews in the Netherlands by the Dutch government, 1938-1942

    Collection of the Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs), regarding the treatment of the Jews in the Netherlands by the Dutch government, 1938-1942 The Ministerie van Algemene Zaken (Ministry for General Affairs) in The Hague dealt during 1938-1942 with the governing of the Netherlands during the German occupation, economic [general?] matters related to war, Nazi issues, and the organization of relief by het Nederlandsche Roode Kruis (the Dutch Red Cross) and Winterhulp; the Ministry for General Affairs dealt with the matter of the strikes in February 1941 and May 1943...

  8. Collection of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken - Ministry of Welfare in the Netherlands, regarding concentration camps and prisons, dated, 1945-1947

    Collection of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken - Ministry of Welfare in the Netherlands, regarding concentration camps and prisons, dated, 1945-1947 Included in the collection: Documents, testimonies, reports, research, questionnaires, official documentation of the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken and others, regarding the camps.

  9. Collection of the Ministry of Interior in the Netherlands, Department for Needy Persons, 1936-1945 Another name for the collection: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Afdeling Armwezen in The Hague

    Collection of the Ministry of Interior in the Netherlands, Department for Needy Persons, 1936-1945 Another name for the collection: Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Afdeling Armwezen in The Hague The collection attests to the coping by the Dutch government with the influx of Jewish refugees before the war, and the policies of the Dutch government during the German occupation period; Included in the collection: Internal correspondence regarding stipends to Jews; Documents regarding mixed marriages among Jews in Rotterdam, 1942; Documents regarding the care of war orphans and children who a...

  10. Collection of the Nationaal Steun Fonds, a fund that supported Jews during and after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1941-1946

    Collection of the Nationaal Steun Fonds, a fund that supported Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1942-1945 The fund paid stipends to Jews who were in hiding; Included in the collection are lists of hundreds of Jews who received stipends.

  11. Collection of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging, NSB - the Nazi Movement in the Netherlands, 1933-1945

    Collection of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging, NSB - the Nazi Movement in the Netherlands, 1933-1945 The Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging - NSB was established in the Netherlands by ir. A.A. Mussert and C. van Geelkerken in 1931; The rise to power of Hitler in Germany in 1933 contributed to the large rise of the NSB in the Netherlands; the NSB joined the government as a fascist party in 1937; during the war, the NSB was the main political partner of the German occupation authorities; Seyss-Inquart declared the NSB as the only legal party in the Netherlands in 1941; the NSB establishe...

  12. Collection of the Netherlands Civil Representation in Belgium, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Netherlands Civil Representation in Belgium, 1940-1945 Following the departure of the Dutch diplomats from the Nederlands Consulaat te Brussel (Netherlands Consulate in Brussels) in Belgium in 1940, the Dutch government established the Bureau ter Behartiging van de Belangen van Nederlanders (Bureau for the Coordination of Civilian Affairs of Dutch citizens in Belgium), which was active during 1940-1945; Included in the collection: Official documentation, including anti-Jewish orders and decrees, 1940-1945.

  13. Collection of the Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

    Collection of the Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Niederlandische Aktiengesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen, NAGU was established by the Germans as a company for the handling of Jewish businesses, in accordance with the law in the Netherlands; the NAGU was, in actual fact, a body that served as a middleman in financial deals during the Aryanization process; NAGU received work orders from the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle, a department in the Ministry of the Economy and Economics, the Wirtschaft of the Reichskomm...

  14. Collection of the Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft Archive, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands, 1940-1951

    Collection of the Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft Archive, regarding the administration of Jewish property in the Netherlands, 1940-1951 The source of the collection are the archives of the Dutch branch of Omnia and the Deutsche Revisions-und Treuhandgesellschaft, and the Wirtschaftsprüfstelle archive; the collection was rearranged into files by the NIOD during the postwar period, and with the help of the Schade Enquête Commissie - SEC; SEC was responsible for the evaluation of the damage caused to the Jews due to the confiscation of their businesses; the files are numbered from 1 to 6,798; info...

  15. Collection of the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Schoorl camp in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

  16. Collection of the Protestantsch Hulp Comité voor Uitgewekenen om Ras en Geloof (Protestant Help Committee to Refugees of Race or Religion) in the Netherlands, 1939-1940

    Collection of the Protestantsch Hulp Comité voor Uitgewekenen om Ras en Geloof (Protestant Help Committee to Refugees of Race or Religion) in the Netherlands, 1939-1940 The aim of the Protestant Committee was to give help to Jewish or "partially" Jewish refugees who had been baptized to Christianity, or "Aryans" who were married to Jews; Included in the collection: Circulars, notes and correspondence related to the Protestant Help Committee in Amsterdam, 1940; Correspondence between the committee's chairman Professor V. H. Rutgers and various organizations and persons, including the Central...

  17. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Aardolieproducten - Ministry for Crude Oil Products in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Aardolieproducten - Ministry for Crude Oil Products in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding Jewish businesses in the Netherlands, 1940-1945.

  18. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor de Voedselvoorziening (Food Supply Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1945

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor de Voedselvoorziening (Food Supply Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1945 Collection from the Archive of ir. S. L. Louwes, secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and head of the Rijksbureau voor de Voedselvoorziening (Food Supply Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1945; Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding an attempt to transfer the ownership of NV Zendijk Twello; Documents regarding Jewish dairy owners in the Netherlands.

  19. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamond Industry Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamond Industry Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954 Establishment of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant by the Germans, as a department of the Rüstungsinspektion Niederlande for the promotion of the industry in the Netherlands in 1940; the Rijksbureau voor Diamant was given the responsibility for the registration of all of the diamonds in the Netherlands and the issuing of permits for all actions related to the diamond industry and diamond trade; Included in the collection: Forms/questionnaires of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (government bureau for d...

  20. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954 Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding diamond dealers in the Netherlands, most of them Jews, 1940-1954; Lists of diamond dealers, a newspaper article regarding Jewish diamond dealers in the Netherlands, and documentation regarding an incident of concealment; Documents of the Schade-Enquete-Commissies - compensation committee regarding diamond dealers during the postwar period in the Netherlands, 1946-1954; Documents of the Ministry of Transportation of the Netherlands; Documents...