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Correspondence of Jewish citizens (Fond 247)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.29 | RG Number: RG-41.018

Overview

Description: Correspondence of Jewish families during the German occupation of the Netherlands and their deportation. This collection includes (copies of) letters that relatives and acquaintances wrote to each other, often supplemented with photographs, identification cards, diaries and other personal documents. The emphasis is on the period of the occupation, but some files of correspondence dates from the 1930s through the late 1940s
Date: inclusive: 1931-1945

Physical Details

Language: Dutch
Genre/Form: Correspondence. Photographs. Identification cards. Diaries.
Extent: 3,398 digital images : JPEG ; 1,18 GB .
57 digital files : PDF ; 1.64 GB .
System of Arrangement: Arranged by one series divided by several categories: 1. Prosecution of Jews (Jodenvervolging)-Correspondence. The correspondence is divided into several categories that reflect the nature of the authors, such as forced labor, Jews, hiding, resistance and the Dutch East Indies. Correspondence within the categories is organized alphabetically by the name of the letter writers.

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Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Museum staff and researchers are required to complete a User Declaration in order to gain access to the collection.
Conditions on Use: Fair use only. Copies of records will not be made available for any further publication to third parties without the written consent of the Institute.
Copyright Holder: NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Netherlands. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from the Netherlands. Jews--Netherlands--History--20th century--Correspondence. Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands.
Geographic Name: Netherlands (Territory under German Occupation, 1940-1945) Vught (Netherlands) Westerbork (Netherlands)
Corporate Name: Westerbork (Concentration camp) Vught (Concentration camp) Molengoot Labor Camp Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie, NIOD, (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation), Fond 247. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Feb. 2015.

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