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Language of Description: English
Country: Israel

  1. Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943

    Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: Log books and reports produced by the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943; the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police handled violations of the Germans' decrees, such as the obligation on Jews to wear a yellow badge, the ban on Jews against travelling on public transportation, the obligation for Jews to hand over their bicycles and radios, the giving of shelter to Jews and other anti-Jewish persecutions such as hiding Jews...

  2. Collection of the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - Committee for Jewish Refugees, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1939

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6257542
    • English, Hebrew
    • Committee requests Curriculum Vitae (CV) Document Letter List of names in relief agency records List of refugees Official documentation Reports Statistics Testimony

    Collection of the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - Committee for Jewish Refugees, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1939 Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - the Committee for Jewish Refugees in the Netherlands was established in Amsterdam in 1933; the function of the committee was the coordination of relief activities for Jewish refugees who arrived from Germany; the committee was active in the context of the umbrella-organization, Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen - CBJB, the Committee for Special Jewish Affairs established by Professor Dr. D. Cohen, A. Asscher and others; th...

  3. Collection of the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen – Committee for the Supervision over Non-Profit Organizations in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

    Collection of the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen – Committee for the Supervision over Non-Profit Organizations in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Reichskommissar started the obligation for all of the non-profit organizations in the Netherlands to register themselves in 1940; VO 41/41 established that the control over the organizations would be by the Germans; the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen registered all of the organizations' details, including financial matters, and among the 120,000 organizations registered during 1941, the ...

  4. Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950

    Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950 Official documentation of the Commissie-Clevering committee, established by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands in 1946 for the purpose of examining the attitude of the embassies toward Dutch citizens who escaped to Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries during the war period: Included in the collection: Testimonies of: A. Cohen E. Elzas L. Flesseman M.H. Gans A.J. Goedkoop E.H. van Hasselt M.H.J. Hedeman-Joosten J.M. Kijzer J. P...

  5. Collection of the Consulaat New York - Consulate of the Netherlands in New York, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Consulaat New York - Consulate of the Netherlands in New York, 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Consulate of the Netherlands in New York, regarding exchanges of Jewish and German prisoners during 1940-1945; Official documentation regarding Dutch Jews in the liberated countries in 1945; Official documentation regarding the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands during 1940-1945; Official documentation of the Consulate of the Netherlands in New York, regarding the confiscation of property of Jews who emigrated from the Netherlands to the ...

  6. Collection of the Departement van Bijzondere Economische Zaken - Office for Special Economic Matters in the Netherlands, 1941-1945

    Collection of the Departement van Bijzondere Economische Zaken - Office for Special Economic Matters in the Netherlands, 1941-1945 The Departement van Bijzondere Economische Zaken - Office for Special Economic Matters in the Netherlands was administered by Mr. M. M. Rost van Tonningen and was responsible for matters related to insurance, credit and other financial matters; the department joined the Aryanization department in 1942; Included in the collection: Protocols of meetings of the Verzekeringsraad (Insurance Council), established in accordance with the decision of the Treasury directo...

  7. Collection of the Departement van Justitie - Department of Justice of the Netherlands, regarding the deportation of Jews in 1943

    Collection of the Departement van Justitie - Department of Justice of the Netherlands, regarding the deportation of Jews in 1943 Included in the collection: Telegrams received by the Police commander in the Departement van Justitie of the Netherlands, including reports regarding the deportations of Jews from the various cities, 1943.

  8. Collection of the Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1938-1942

    Collection of the Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1938-1942 Collection of the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Zorg voor de Vluchtelingen uit Duitsland (Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany of the Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands), 1938-1942; thousands of refugees from Germany began to arrive to the Netherlands starting in 1933; the Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands established approximately 60 refugee camps, including the Hotel-Lloyd and the Zeeburgerdijk isolation institution in Amsterda...

  9. Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943

    Collection of the Directie van Handel en Nijverheid - Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands, 1905-1943 In the collection of the Office of Commerce and Industry in the Netherlands there is much information regarding the economic development in the Netherlands before and during the Nazi occupation, including the labor market in the Netherlands during the 1930s, the draft of reserve forces among Dutch merchants in 1940, and the removal of Jews from the Dutch economy, for instance Jewish clerks and Jewish businesses such as Bijenkorf, Hollandia Kattenburg & Co, Zwanenburg, Orga...

  10. Collection of the Dutch Intelligence in London, England, regarding the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1944

    Collection of the Dutch Intelligence in London, England, regarding the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands, 1942-1944 Included in the collection: Reports and testimonies collected by the Dutch intelligence services in London, 1942-1944; List of names of Jews from the Netherlands who made aliya to Eretz Israel in July 1944 in the context of the exchange of Jews for Germans, Palestina-Austausch.

  11. Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944 The Germans established a system for civil administration in 1940; Arthur Seyss-Inquart stood as the Reichskommissar - head of the civil administration; establishment of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Office for Administration and Justice) under Seyss-Inquart, and under the administration of Friedrich Wimmer in The Hague; among the office's functions were administration and justice: legislation, internal matters, justice,...

  12. Collection of the Gezantschap in Zwitserland (Consulate of the Netherlands) in Bern, Switzerland, 1939-1947

    Collection of the Gezantschap in Zwitserland (Consulate of the Netherlands) in Bern, Switzerland, 1939-1947 Included in the collection: Official documentation of the Gezantschap in Zwitserland regarding food parcels to Jews in Poland in 1944; Documents regarding the evacuation of Jews to locations overseas, 1943-1945; Documents regarding Jewish refugees, 1942-1943; Documents regarding the exchange of Jews for Germans, dated, 1939-1947; Documents regarding the diamond industry in the Netherlands, 1939-1947; Lists of refugees from the Netherlands, 1939-1947; Testimonies regarding Theresiensta...

  13. Collection of the Grond en Pachtzaken (Lands Administration) of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, 1940-1945

    Collection of the Grond en Pachtzaken (Lands Administration) of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Included in the collection: Documents, correspondence and reports of the Grond en Pachtzaken (Lands Administration) of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands, regarding the expropriation of Jewish-owned land in the context of the Aryanization policies in the Netherlands, 1940-1945.

  14. Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943

    Collection of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden, 1940-1943 The role of the Hilfsausschuß fur die Deutschen in den Niederlanden was the determination of damages and payment of compensation to German citizens who suffered from war damages in the Netherlands; the Hilfsausschuß was based on VO 21/41; Germans outside of the Netherlands were also entitled to compensation, on condition that the damage to property was caused in the Netherlands; most of the claims related to the property of Jewish refugees from Germany who had stored their household contents in storage rooms of...

  15. 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 ...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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...