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Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954

Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954 Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding diamond dealers in the Netherlands, most of them Jews, 1940-1954; Lists of diamond dealers, a newspaper article regarding Jewish diamond dealers in the Netherlands, and documentation regarding an incident of concealment; Documents of the Schade-Enquete-Commissies - compensation committee regarding diamond dealers during the postwar period in the Netherlands, 1946-1954; Documents of the Ministry of Transportation of the Netherlands; Documents of the Internationale Industrie Diamant Organisatie (Diamond industry international organization) and the A'damse Vereniging van Winkeliers in juwelen, goud, zilver (Association of jewelry, gold and silver retailers) in the Netherlands, 1954-1955; Documents of the Beurs voor de Diamanthandel (Diamond exchange) in the Netherlands; Official documentation of Treuhander, OMNIA: Verwalter regarding the Aryanization of the diamond businesses in the Netherlands, 1944; Documentation regarding polishing equipment in homes of deported Jews; List of Jewish diamond dealers in Westerbork camp; Correspondence by the Rijksbureau voor Diamant with people and institutions in the Netherlands, 1940-1945; List of authorities in Germany, regarding diamond dealers in the Netherlands who are exempt from deportation to the East; Documents of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant, regarding accounts, monies and business licenses for Jews; Reports prepared by the Devisen Schutzkommando; Documents regarding the restitution of diamonds to Fonteijn after the war; List of Ketubot (Jewish marriage certificates) that the Germans kept, including confiscated diamonds in the Netherlands, 1943-1944; Inventory list of various workshops; Official documentation of Treuhander Guth, a diamond industry manager; Documentation regarding the location of diamonds in Amsterdam; List of diamond dealers in the Netherlands whose diamonds were weighed in Berlin; Official documentation of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant after the war, including protocols of meetings; List of diamond dealers in Bergen-Belsen camp; Documents regarding the following diamond dealers: Fa. Smit Fa. Asscher Waterman Wezel & Spits Goudvis Asscher's Diamant Maatschappij Emanuel Aardewerk S Blitz Fa. D Drukker & Zn en Fa. S Drukker Fa. Dumig Fa Genadia R Heilbrunn J Hillesum SH Kahl Geneve AH Koch & Zn M Koord W Lampie E Montanhes KW Mueller-Guelich A Reiss JK Smit & Zn Benjamin A Soep NV Sondheimer HAJ Stenger Struch Svenska NV Tools Uhrenstein JS Voorzanger L Witmond en M van Praag B.J.B.O.A Salomon Hartog in New York Abraham van Praag - Is. Goudeket S de Metz - Emanuel Goudvis H Barnstein Is. Goudeket Wolf Drukker Leon Slier Tugendhaft E. Bas Fa Teeboom Fa. L Grishaver I Pinheiro.
item Id
6382931
Type of material
Official documentation
Language
Dutch
German
Record Group
M.68 - Archives in the Netherlands
Date of Creation - earliest
1940
Date of Creation - latest
1954
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
6000
Archival Signature
2.06.076.04 - Rijksbureau voor Diamant, 1940-1955
Location of Originals
NATIONAAL ARCHIEF
Connected to Item
M.68 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in the Netherlands, 1930-1950