Documentation regarding the treatment of Jewish children hidden by non-Jewish families in the Netherlands, 1945-2003

Documentation regarding the treatment of Jewish children who were hidden by non-Jewish families in the Netherlands, 1945-2003 - Underground activities of Menachem Pinkhof and his future wife, Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof, who found hiding places for Jewish children among the non-Jewish Dutch population; the struggle at the end of the war for jurisdiction over the "Oorlogspleegkinderen (Jewish children hidden by non-Jewish people)" in the Netherlands between the Jewish community and the Dutch establishment and between the Church and the non-Jewish families that had hidden the children. - "The Battle for the Oorlogspleegkinderen", article by Ineke Brasz, published in "NIW" (pp. 3-5), 15 November 1985; - "The Terrible Secret About the Hidden Children", article that appeared in the Israeli press dealing with the Dutch law according to which Jewish children who had been hidden were not to be returned to their parents or members of their community except under certain conditions (p. 8), 21 February 2003; - Article by Tamara Benima, published in "NIW" in memory of Abraham Yanun (Bram de Jong), 03 November 1955; - Abraham Yanun's struggle against Professor Gesina van der Molen, Chairperson of the "Guardian Commission for the War Foster Children (OPK)", and Sandor Baracs, Director of the "Committee On Behalf Of The Return of the Oorlogspleegkinderen to the Jewish Community" (p. 10); - "Life Is a Stage", illustrated booklet with a humorous description of the lives of the Jews in hiding in the Netherlands (pp. 15-32), December 1945; - Correspondence between Menachem Pinkhof and Bert v.d. Breen, a former underground fighter, regarding the role of Mirjam and Menachem Pinkhof in the smuggling of two orphaned Jewish children, the Hamerslag children, out of the hands of the Dutch establishment and their illegal transfer to Israel (pp. 36-63), 1949; - "De Creche", article published in the weekend edition of the "Vrij Nederland" newspaper, and a translation of the article into Hebrew (pp. 96-118), 18 January 1986; - Photograph of the monument in memory of the Dutch people who hid Jewish children; - Copies of photographs taken by Jet Waterman including the monument in memory of the Dutch people who hid Jewish children; Remi, the boy who was deported from the "Creche" on the last transport; Betty Mulder, the underground fighter and Mirjam (Waterman) Pinkhof; the photographs can be found in the Yad Vashem Photo Archive (pp. 122-123); - Map of the city of Hilversum used by the underground, 01 June 1944.