Overview
- Description
- Records reflect primarily the activities of the Amsterdam Judenrat with its various departments, and the Jewish interaction with the German and Dutch authorities, the daily life and living conditions of the Jews in Holland under the Nazi occupation, some documents relate to Jewish life in Netherlands prior to, and subsequent to the Holocaust. Included are records of the Joodsche Raad (Judenrat), the Nazi-appointed Jewish councils in Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam; reports about anti-Jewish laws; weekly and monthly reports about deportations, 1942-1943; communications with internees in the Westerbork concentration camp; lists of deportees; memorabilia from Westerbork concentration camp; materials about the Dutch Nazi movement; printed matter containing German propaganda, German orders relating to confiscation of Jewish property; diaries, memoirs and personal documents of Jewish survivors. Contains also a small number of documents pertaining to the pre-Holocaust period, including the by-laws of a young men's society named the Agoeda Bakuriem in Amsterdam (1790-1840) and financial records of the Rotterdam community in the 19th century; as well contains the post-war materials: records of the Dutch Red Cross regarding Dutch Jews in the Nazi camps, lists of camp survivors, clippings about Jewish displaced persons in Holland, reports of Jewish life in Holland, 1946-1955.
Digital copies of some of this collection have been made available online at https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/resources/21075 through the Center for Jewish History (consulted 10/3/2023). - Date
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inclusive:
1790-1980
bulk: 1940-1949
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Armbands. Caricatures. Cartoons. Certificates. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Identity cards. Passports. Photographs. Registers. Reports.
- Extent
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5,092 digital images : JPEG ; 19.2 GB.
5 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arrranged in three series: 1. Jewish life in Holland during the Nazi Occupation, 1940-1944; 2. Post-war Dutch-Jewish Material; 3. Pre-Holocaust Dutch-Jewish Material.
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
- For scholarly use only, no reproduction without permission. Files shall not be copied or shared in any way with another individual or institution. Information on these files of a personal or confidential nature shall not be shared with third parties, neither through hard copy printouts nor by making copied files. For permission to reproduce documents write to the Chief Archivist, YIVO Archives at: reference@yivo.org.
- Copyright Holder
- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Netherlands. World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--Europe. Jews--Persecutions--Netherlands--History--20th century. Jewish property--Netherlands--History--20th century. Jews, Portuguese--Netherlands--Amsterdam--Societies, etc. Sephardim--Netherlands--History--20th century. Jews--Netherlands--Oss--History--20th century. Jews--Netherlands--Rotterdam--History--20th century. Propaganda,German--Netherlands. Jewish councils--Netherlands--Amsterdam--History--20th century. War criminals--Netherlands--Registers. Dutch newspapers--Netherlands--Registers. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Hague--Personal narratives. Jewish committees (ushmm) Refugee assistance groups (ushmm) Charity organization.
- Geographic Name
- Amsterdam (Netherlands )--Social life and customs--20th century. Europe--Economic conditions--20th century. Netherlands--Ethnic relations--20th century. Oss (Netherlands)--Social life and customs--20th century. Rotterdam (Netherlands )--Social life and customs--20th century. Amsterdam (Netherlands) Portugal Netherlands.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO), RG-116-Holland. This collection of mixed provenance was accumulated at YIVO over a span of forty-six years (1945-1991). The material in this collection was generated by German military and civil authorities, Dutch national and municipal authorities, and the Judenrat of Amsterdam, and its numerous departments and sub-divisions. The Dutch Red Cross material (folders 52.1-26), was generated right after the war by their extensive information gathering activities and their attempts to publicize information about victims of the Holocaust and how they met their deaths.
The Jewish religious, cultural, and educational institutions and organizations of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and other Dutch cities, and the private individuals who produced their correspondence and preserved their personal documents of governmental and communal origin, round out the picture of the sources of the material we now find in this collection. The collection does not contain any entire group of records pertaining to an individual or larger entity, but only various fragments of such records. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from YIVO via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2014.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-10-03 11:24:29
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