Overview
- Description
- Records of the Bureau General Secretariat and Compatibility, the Bureau Armwezen/Vluchtelingen and the refugee camps Westerbork, the Lloyd-hotel (later Oostelijke Handelskade) in Amsterdam, the quarantine station Beneden-Heyplaat in Rotterdam and the Koninginnehoofd refugee camp in Rotterdam. The collection consists of records relating to financial and personnel matter, the construction and the layout of the camps. There are also weekly reports and strength records of camp residents, personal cards, sightings etc., and records relating to the Committee of Jewish Refugees, concerning the medical treatment of refugees residing in the Netherlands, including Jews, and other documents (correspondence, minutes).
- Alternate Title
- Archive of Ministry of Internal Affairs. Refugees from Germany
- Date
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inclusive:
1938-1942
- Reference
- Inventaris van het archief van het Ministerie vanBinnenlandse Zaken: Zorg voor de Vluchtelingen uit Duitsland, 1938-1942 (Inventory of the archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: Care for the Refugees from Germany, 1938-1942)
Cohen, D., Zwervend en dolend. De joodse vluchtelingen in Nederland in de jaren 1933-1940. Haarlem : Erven F. Bohn, 1955.
Houwaart, D. Westerbork. Het begon in 1933. Nederlands: Kok, 2000.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Drawings. Minutes. Registers. Reports.
- Extent
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41,850 digital images : JPEG ; 87,6 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in three subject series: 1. Financial matters; 2. Personnel affairs; 3. Completed tasks: "General", "Central Commission on the refugee issue", "Committees", "Refugee camps" and "Refugees." The section "Refugees" distinguished by two groups of refugees: Individuals cases (alphabetical order) and families. The documents containing several personal names are arranged chronologically. Generally, most of documents are organized in chronological order, but some number of documents are organized alphabetically, e.g. the documents concerning the assessment of the monthly applications for discharge by refugee camps are not organized chronologically, but alphabetically by place names.
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- 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 publication without a prior written consent of the Netherlands National Archives. The USHMM shall provide the Netherlands National Archives yearly statistics regarding a third Party use of reproductions of their archival materials.
- Copyright Holder
- Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the National Archives of Netherlands [Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)], Archival Number: 2.04.58. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project Division in December 2017.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-05 13:29:15
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