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Personal documentation belonging to Aron Velleman, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 10 April 1907, including a thank you letter from Prince Bernhard, 1945

Personal documentation belonging to Aron Velleman, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 10 April 1907, including a thank you letter from Prince Bernhard, 1945 - Forged identity card in the name of Arie Katwijk prepared for Aron Velleman from Rotterdam, place and date of issue: Tilburg, 07 October 1943; - Forced document in the name of Henriette de With prepared for Henriette Velleman (wife of Aron Velleman) from Rotterdam, place and date of issue: Tilburg, 07 October 1943; -Letter from the Employment Bureau in Rotterdam certifying that Arie Katwijk was examined by a physician and was found to be unfit...

File Number : 144

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Genealogy, Official Documentation, Vouchers

Language : English, Dutch, German

Memoirs of Peter Tower, born in Dresden, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Dresden, Eindhoven, Spain, Jamaica and other places

Memoirs of Peter Tower, born in Dresden, Germany, 1925, regarding his experiences in Dresden, Eindhoven, Spain, Jamaica and other places Life in Dresden until 1938; move to Eindhoven. Move to Spain via southern France; attempt to move to Canada as a volunteer in the Dutch Army; capture by the British; transfer to a POW camp in Jamaica; move to the United States.

File Number : 8221

Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964

Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964 Amersfoort camp was built by the Dutch Army in 1939; following the German occupation in 1940, the Germans started to use the camp as a rest place for the German soldiers; the German authorities decided to expand the camp in 1941 and to turn it into a transit camp, called Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort; approximately 35,000 inmates passed through Amersfoort camp during the war, most of them political prisoners, but also Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, marginal people, people who refused to do labor, hostages, and criminals;...

Type of Material : Announcement, Testimony, List of Murdered Persons, List of Camp Inmates, Letter, Certification, Questionnaire, Diary, Document, Legal Documentation, Reports, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Jacob Van Zuiden Daromi, born in Hoogeveen, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Netherlands, in various hiding places and using a false identity

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Jacob Van Zuiden Daromi, born in Hoogeveen, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Netherlands, in various hiding places and using a false identity Childhood and family background; education; community life; arrival of refugees from Germany; displays of antisemitism. German occupation, May 1940; move to Nijmegen; yellow badge; hidden by a non-Jewish woman; move to the northern Netherlands; hidden by a Protestant minister; hidden by a religious Christian teacher; assumes a false identity; life in Amsterdam; arrest; evades detention; hidden by a Catholic family; disguise as a...

File Number : 12570

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter by Coen van Tricht in Maarn, regarding a Jewish commander in the Dutch Army, A. Porcelijn; letter written, 1997

Letter by Coen van Tricht in Maarn, regarding a Jewish commander in the Dutch Army, A. Porcelijn; letter written, 1997 - Letter by the former commander of Abraham Porcelijn, from Amsterdam, regarding locating the relatives of Abraham Porcelijn who perished in Sobibor, 02 July 1943; the letter was sent to the "De Opmaat" newspaper, 1997.

File Number : 157

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Eliezer Asher, born in Gronigen, 1920, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, and using a false identity in Altengrabow and a German village

Testimony

Testimony of Eliezer Asher, born in Groningen, 1920, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, using a false identity in Altengrabow and a German village Son of the Chief Rabbi of the Groningen region; orphaned of his father at a young age; attends a public school; member of the Zichron Yaakov religious Zionist youth movement; life on an aliya training facility in Amsterdam, 1936; studies at an engineering school; drafted into the Dutch Army, August 1939. Entry of the Germans; return home; move back to Amsterdam; restrictions; deportation to the ghetto; ghetto life, including labor at school; escape...

File Number : 9366

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Simcha Van Frank, born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, 1920, regarding his experiences in aliya training in Biberach, in hiding in the Netherlands and with the Dutch underground

Testimony

Testimony of Simcha Van Frank, born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, 1920, regarding his experiences in aliya training in Biberach, in hiding in the Netherlands and with the Dutch underground Poor, traditional family; membership in a Zionist youth movement; learns in a rabbinical seminary in Amsterdam until 1939. Draft to the Dutch Army and release from the army with all the Dutch Army soldiers, 15 May 1940; patient and positive attitude on the part of the army; joins Bachad aliya training in Biberach as a counselor; learns agricultural work while helping farmers in the area; deportation of some of the...

File Number : 8789

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Postcards sent to Felix Max de Jong in the Miranda del Ebro camp, in Portugal, and in the British Royal Air Force in 1943–1944, and documentation of Felix Max de Jong, born in Amsterdam

Postcards sent to Felix Max de Jong in the Miranda del Ebro camp, in Portugal, and in the British Royal Air Force in 1943–1944, and documentation of Felix Max de Jong, born in Amsterdam - postcard sent from Lourdoueix-Saint-Pierre, France, to Felix Max de Jong in the Miranda del Ebro camp on May 13, 1943; - postcard from Nemesio López Solás to Felix Max de Jong in Praia das Maçãs, Portugal, and in the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the UK in 1943–1944; The experiences of Felix Max de Jong, written by him in Praia das Maçãs on July 18, 1943, from an army questionnaire in London in November 1943, and a list of...

File Number : 4967

Type of Material : Invitation, Certification, Personal Documents, Biography, Letter, Article, Order, Maps, Newspaper Clippings, Postcard, Identity Card, Diploma, Passport, Declaration

Language : Spanish, French, English, Dutch, Portuguese

Documentation related to Machiel de Vries and his experiences during the Holocaust and the fate of his parents Marcus de Vries and Rosalina (Soesan) de Vries

Documentation related to Machiel de Vries and his experiences during the Holocaust and the fate of his parents Marcus de Vries and Rosalina (Soesan) de Vries - Documentation related to Marcus and Rosalina de Vries, from the period before the war: --- Birth certificates of Rosalina Soesan (born inn 1891) and Marcus de Vries (born in 1895), issued in Amsterdam; --- Marriage certificate of Marcus de Vries and Rosalina Soesan, issued by the Jewish community of Zaandam on 23/05/1918; --- Trouwboekje (family registration document) of Marcus de Vries and Rosalina Soesan, issued in Zaandam on 23/05/1918,...

File Number : 192

Type of Material : Personal Documents, הודעה, Maps, Birth Certificate, Diploma, Certification, Marriage Certificate, Speech, Death Certificate

Language : Dutch, German

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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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