Henk van Rossum collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2023.141.1

Overview

Description: Comprised of 42 rolls of approximately 763 photo negatives, and additional negatives, photos, and documents that belonged to Henk van Rossum, a Dutch citizen from The Hague. He worked for the government during the war and later became involved with the Dutch resistance delivering illegal newspapers.

Included in the collection are Dutch illegal newspapers from the resistance, personal papers, as well as a letter from a Jewish friend who wrote about his experiences and family members who were deported to ‘durchgangslager’ Westerbork, concentration camps Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt.

The photo negatives include images of mostly German propaganda posters and notices on advertising pillars in the occupied Netherlands. including collaborationist posters such as recruitment posters for the Waffen SS, antisemitic images, announcements, and concerts in the Netherlands during the German occupation. There are also photos of the liberation of The Hague in 1945, with tanks and allied troops entering the city.
Date: creation: circa 1945

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: The Museum has made reasonable efforts but is not able to determine the copyright status of some or all of the material(s) in this collection, or identify and/or locate the potential copyright owner(s). The Museum therefore places no restrictions on use of this material, but it cannot provide any information to the user about the status of the copyright(s). The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Copyright Holder: Unknown copyright

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from Jeroen Zegelaar in 2023.