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Correspondence, circulars and documents of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) in Amsterdam, regarding contacts with authorities in Germany during 1942-1943 (L-S)

Correspondence, circulars and documents of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) in Amsterdam, regarding contacts with authorities in Germany during 1942-1943 (L-S) Correspondence by A. Asscher and D. Cohen with authorities in Germany during 1942-1943; unsigned document in German, from 1942, regarding the transfer of money from the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. to Jews whose account was confiscated by the Joodse Raad.

File Number : JM/12166

Type of Material : Document, Circular, Correspondence, Names

Language : Dutch, German

Appendix to a list of Jews deported from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1943; in the documentation of the Joodse Raad in Amsterdam, the list is arranged according to families, including the number of Ausweis

File Number : JM/12165

Type of Material : List of Deportees

Language : Dutch

List of editorial board members of the Jewish newspaper, Het Joodsche Weekblad, in Amsterdam, 1942

File Number : JM/12164

Type of Material : List of Editorial Board Members

Language : Dutch

Lists of members and workers in the various districts who were employed by the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) in Amsterdam, 24/02/1942

File Number : JM/12164

Type of Material : List of Workers, List of Judenrat Members

Language : Dutch

Collection of De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

Collection of De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council of Amsterdam) in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Nazis ordered the Jewish communities in many of the occupied countries to establish a Jewish council; following the anti-Jewish riots in Amsterdam on 12/02/1941, Dr. Hans Böhmcker ordered industrialist Abraham Asscher to establish a Jewish council, De Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam, which would represent city's Jews at its start. Later on, the Jewish council, under the leadership of Abraham Asscher and Dr. David Cohen, handled the matters of all of the Jews in the Netherlands opposite the German...

Type of Material : Lists, Financial Accounts, Protocol, Document, Certification, Journal, Names, Survey Report, Report, Questionnaire, Letter, Note

Language : Dutch, German

Miscellaneous documentation concerning 1) The occupation of the Netherlands, in particular the persecution of Jews, their concentration and eventual deportation to extermination camps in the East; 2) The persecution and murder of Jews in Transnistria and surrounding areas, 1940-1944; 3) Postwar legal proceedings regarding war crimes in the Netherlands, Germany and Romania, 1945-1961

Documentation regarding the German occupation of the Netherlands and the persecution, concentration and deportation of Jews to extermination camps in the East, and the persecution and murder of Jews in Transnistria and the surrounding areas, 1940-1944, and postwar legal proceedings concerning war crimes in the Netherlands, Germany and Romania, 1945-1961 Miscellaneous documentation concerning 1) The occupation of the Netherlands, in particular the persecution of Jews, their concentration and eventual deportation to extermination camps in the East; 2) The persecution and murder of Jews in Transnistria and...

File Number : 155

Type of Material : Lists, Administrative Documentation, Reports, Statistical Reports, Testimony, Instruction, List of Camp Inmates, Document(s), Laws and Decrees, List of Jewish Women, Circular, Official Documentation, Investigation Reports, Protocol

Language : Dutch, German

Interrogation of David Cohen at the trial against him, 1947-1948

Interrogation of David Cohen at the trial against him, 1947-1948 Testimony of David Cohen, one of the leaders of the Jewish Council (Joodsche Raad) in the Netherlands at the trial against him. - Report regarding the activities of the council; David Cohen's activities and Abraham Asscher's activities; - Accusations levelled by Kisch against David Cohen regarding the policy concerning exemptions from decrees, various announcements published by the Jewish Council and personal criticism of Cohen and Asscher (pp. 1-8); - Cohen's testimony regarding the work of the Council officials in the theater, the...

File Number : 63

Type of Material : Investigation Report

Language : Dutch

Direct examination of David Cohen at the trial held against him, 1947

Direct examination of David Cohen at the trial held against him, 1947 - Testimony of David Cohen, one of the leaders of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) in the Netherlands, 02 May 1947: establishment of the Joodse Raad; German use of Council-generated lists for deportation of the Jews from the Netherlands; German use of the card file prepared for them by the Council in order to indicate the Jews who had already been deported; only one incident of the Council turning in the name of a Jew designated for deportation; blow to the Council's plans to rescue a large number of Jews through temporary dismissal from...

File Number : 62

Type of Material : Testimony, Investigation Report

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Abraham Asscher, one of the leaders of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) at his trial, 1947-1948

Testimony of Abraham Asscher, one of the leaders of the Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) at his trial, 1947-1948 - Description of the circumstances under which he was appointed as Chairman of the Joodse Raad; the support and trust he received from most of the Dutch Jews; attempts to end the "February strike" in order to prevent executions of Jews; murder of the group of Dutch Jews who were sent to Mauthausen in 1941, according to what he heard from a German soldier; attempts to sabotage the German plan to transfer the diamond industry to Bergen-Belsen; rejection of the claim that he discouraged Jews from...

File Number : 61

Type of Material : Testimony, Investigation Report

Language : Dutch

Letter sent by Leo Trepp in Amsterdam to his relatives in the United States in 1945, with documentation of his experiences during the Holocaust

Letter sent by Leo Trepp in Amsterdam to his relatives in the United States in 1945, with documentation of his experiences during the Holocaust - letter written by Leo Trepp in Amsterdam to his uncle in the United States in spring 1945, translated into Hebrew by Harel Oren. The letter includes memoirs regarding his experiences in the Netherlands during the Holocaust: Worsening of the persecution of Amsterdam Jews in February 1941; living in hiding due to the persecution of Jewish refugees from Germany; his father's life in a labor camp for about three months at the beginning of 1942; the activity of the...

File Number : 5107

Type of Material : תעודת נישואין שהונפקה על ידי הקהילה היהודית, Personal Documents, Certification, Newspaper Clippings, עבודת מחקר, Genealogy, List of Jews, Letter, כתובה

Language : Hebrew, English, Dutch, German, Aramaic

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