Overview
- Description
- The collection consists of records relating to the situation for Jews in Amsterdam, Netherlands, including: German anti-Jewish measures; Jewish schools and education during the German occupation; hospitals and health; transportation; expulsion of Jews from the civil service; Jewish market traders; Aryan declarations and refusals to sign; registration of Jewish property; files on Jews in the Amsterdam population registry; Amsterdam Police records (including documents on collaboration on Jewish deportation); documents from the Mayor of Amsterdam relating to Jews; Jewish-German refugees; the general strike in February 1941; and documents on the discussion to turn the Jewish quarter into a ghetto.
- Date
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inclusive:
1940-1945
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Physical Details
- Language
- Dutch
- Extent
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193,967 digital images : JPEG ; 405 GB.
92 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 16 mm.
4 microfiche.
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Netherlands--Amsterdam. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam. Jews--Education--Netherlands--Amsterdam. Jewish day schools--Netherlands--Amsterdam. Jewish property--Netherlands--Amsterdam. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Netherlands--Amsterdam. Refugees, Jewish--Netherlands--Amsterdam. Jews, German--Netherlands--Amsterdam. General Strike, Netherlands, 1941. Police--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stadsarchief
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Amsterdam Municipal Archives (Stadsarchief), Netherlands. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project Division in Jan. 2002. Reels 89 through 92 were accreted to the collection on Oct. 7, 2003.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:09:48
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn509698
Additional Resources
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- Terms of Use
- This record is digitized but cannot be downloaded online.
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-
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