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Additional documentation from the Miriam Pinkhof Archives with a photograph of a loose leaf binder and letters written by Miriam [Waterman] and Menachem Pinkhof from the time of their arrest until their return to the Netherlands

Additional documentation from the Miriam Pinkhof Archives with a photograph of a loose leaf binder and letters written by Miriam [Waterman] and Menachem Pinkhof from the time of their arrest until their return to the Netherlands - The loose leaf binder contains documents regarding Miriam Pinkhof's work in the Ghetto Fighters' Museum; - A cardboard box containing documents and correspondence; - Four video cassettes; - 17 Audio cassettes; - Three newspapers from 1947, 1949 and 1967 in English and Hebrew, saved by Ms. Adela Pinkhof; - Two posters of an art exhibition; - Map of the Netherlands with the concentration/transit camps marked. Also in the file: 1. A copy of the private notebook of Joop Weiss from Bergen-Belsen in which he recorded those "present", those who had died, and the births (pp. 1-109); 2. An issue of "Chamtzan", a newspaper for youth (pp. 110-129), 01 September 1985; 3. Copies of photographs of Dutch Righteous Among the Nations sent to Miriam Pinkhof by Bouke Koning, a Righteous Among the Nations, 1991; these photographs can be found in the Yad Vashem Photo Archive; a letter from Bouke accompanies the photographs; an article regarding Bep B. Groenhout, a Righteous Among the Nations, along with a photograph, which appeared in the Dutch newspaper, "Het Parool" (pp. 130-147), 12 April 1988; 4. Four copies of the booklet, "Yad Vashem", published by the Israeli Consulate in the Netherlands; the July-August edition of the journal published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington with an article regarding the Westerbork camp; additional USHMM documentary material regarding the fate of the Dutch Jews during the Holocaust (pp. 212-235); 5. Correspondence between Miriam Pinkhof and friends in the Netherlands, 1980-1991; letters and documentary material regarding Nel Oosthout, a Righteous Among the Nations; "Holocaust Survivor's Offspring Live Under Cloud", an article by Dorothy Lipowenko (pp.236-310), 1980; 6. List of those who perished in Sternlager (Star Camp) Bergen Belsen; only the names of those deported directly from Westerbork to Bergen-Belsen are listed; the list is from the Dutch Red Cross, the section dealing with locating Jews in Amsterdam; listed on the alphabetical list of approximately 1,100 names are the family names and maiden names of the married women, first name, date of birth, death date and place of death; at the end of the list is a notation that from 10 April 1945, the list is incomplete (pp. 311-332); 7. Description of the experiences of a Jewish family in the Netherlands hidden by non-Jews in the village of Oegstgeest; the unsigned description is not dated; excerpts from the "NIW" weekly magazine regarding the granting of the title "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem to a member of the Administration of the Philips factory (pp. 333-344), 12 January 1996; 8. Documents regarding the ceremony at which the title "Righteous Among the Nations" was bestowed upon Dutch rescuers in Amsterdam by Yad Vashem, 12 April 1988; list of Dutch "Righteous Among the Nations" whose names appear on the Memorial Wall in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations, or those who were honored by the planting of a tree in their name by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (345-402); 9. Report on the dedication of the section devoted to Dutch Jewry in the Ghetto Fighters' Museum which appeared in the Dutch newspaper, "NRC Handelsblad", 03 May 1996; ironic report in a Dutch newspaper regarding the visit of the Dutch Foreign Minister in the refugees' camp in Kalandia; article regarding the fate of the Dutch people in Mauthausen; article by Rik van Puymbroeck in the Belgian newspaper, "Gazet van Antwerpen", regarding his time as an inmate in Dachau, 09 April 1945-the liberation (pp. 403-409); 10. Excerpts in Hebrew from "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley; "Humankind After History", an article by Lewis Mumford (pp. 410-419); 11. Article from the weekend edition of the "NRC Handelsblad" newspaper with the headline "The Search for an Explanation for the Holocaust" by Isaac Lipschits, 24 November 1990; special edition of the Dutch newspaper, "Brabants Dagblad" with all 24 pages devoted to memoirs from the Vught camp, April 1990; articles in a Dutch newspaper regarding five immigrants to Israel from the Netherlands who made significant contributions to the building of the State of Israel; copy of two photographs, on the reverse side of both photographs the words "Dora! Finiki, Turkije" are written, on the reverse side of one photograph the words "Drinken! water innemen" ("Drink! Take water!")and on the reverse side of the second photograph, the words "volhouden is niet makkelijk" ("Consistency is not easy") are written; the photographs can be found in the Yad Vashem Photo Archive (pp. 420-445; 12. Booklet in memory of Miriam Novitz, published by the Ghetto Fighters' Museum (pp. 446-448); correspondence between Menachem Pinkhof and other members of the Westerweel group and Zvi Shanar and the Ghetto Fighters' Museum (pp. 489-492); list of the personal files located in the Dutch section of the Ghetto Fighters' Museum Archives, arranged according to the file number (pp. 493-505), and according to alphabetical order (pp. 506-527), updated through 20 August 1997; articles from the Aleh periodical, "In Focus" (pp. 528-531), May 2001; Letters from and to Mirjam Waterman and Menachem Pinkhof during the period they were inmates in prisons in the Netherlands, in Westerbork and in Bergen-Belsen, the liberation, their time in Troebitz and their return to the Netherlands (pp. 532-625), 22 April 1944-June 1945.
details.fullDetails.itemId
6601105
details.fullDetails.materialType
Document
Letter
Map
Photograph
Postcard
Testimony
details.fullDetails.fileNumber
50.1-11
details.fullDetails.language
Hebrew
English
Dutch
details.fullDetails.recordGroup
P.45 - Pinkhof-Waterman Family Archive
details.fullDetails.earliestDate
1943
details.fullDetails.latestDate
05/2001
details.fullDetails.submitter
מרים פינקהוף
details.fullDetails.original
Partially
details.fullDetails.numOfPages
625
details.fullDetails.belongsTo
P.45 - Pinkhof-Waterman Family Archive