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Testimony of Rivka van Coevorden née van Amstel, born in 1924 in Coevorden, Netherlands, about her experiences in Amsterdam and in hiding in the Netherlands during the war

Testimony

Life before the war; offspring of a family that had lived in the Netherlands since 1400; moving to Amsterdam in 1938; war breaks out in 1940; deportation to a labor camp; escape; assigned to farm labor; marries and gives birth to a daughter; hiding in various places; liberation; reunited with daughter; life after the war; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.

File Number : 13536

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943

Collection of the Bureau Joodsche Zaken - the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943 Included in the collection: Log books and reports produced by the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police, 1942-1943; the Jewish Affairs Department of the Amsterdam Police handled violations of the Germans' decrees, such as the obligation on Jews to wear a yellow badge, the ban on Jews against travelling on public transportation, the obligation for Jews to hand over their bicycles and radios, the giving of shelter to Jews and other anti-Jewish persecutions such as hiding Jews, the...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : Dutch, German

Collection of Dr. K. J. Frederiks, secretary general of the Ministry of the Interior and head of the Commissarissen van de Provincie for the appointment of clerks and policemen during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Dr. K. J. Frederiks was the secretary general of the Ministry of the Interior in the Netherlands in 1931; opposition by Frederiks to appointments among the NSB - the Netherlands Organization of Collaborators, to various positions during the occupation period; non-success of Frederiks' opposition to the Nazi regime.

Type of Material : Protocol, Circular, Document, Correspondence

Language : Dutch, German

Collection of the Adviescommissie voor de Zuivering van Notarissen in de provincie Noord-Holland - Committee for the Investigation of Notaries in the Noord-Holland region of the Netherlands, 1944-1951 Establishment of the committee by the Military Government in the Netherlands on 20/07/1945; committee's function: investigation of the conduct of the Notaries in the Noord-Holland region during the Nazi occupation period; investigation by the committee of suspicions of collaboration by judicial officials with the Nazis regarding the deportation of Jews and the expropriation of Jewish property; basing the...

Type of Material : Circular, Newspaper, Protocol, Lists, Investigation Report, Laws and Decrees, Announcement, Note, Document, Testimony, Correspondence, Reports, Questionnaire

Language : Dutch, German

Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945

Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 Hanns Albin Rauter was the head of the security system in the Netherlands, the Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen en Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, the HSSPF during 1940-1945; operating beneath him were the SS, the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei, the SD and the Dutch Police; despite his subordination to Seyss-Inquart, he had direct contact with Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, in a relatively independent status; Rauter was also the supervisor over the legal...

Type of Material : Document, Statistical Reports, Protocol, Certification, Correspondence

Language : Dutch, German

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

Language : Hebrew

Newspapers and articles from the time of the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands and after the liberation, 1944-1947

Newspapers and articles from the time of the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands and after the liberation, 1944-1947 - Photographs of victims from the concentration camps and photographs from the Netherlands under the occupation as they appeared in the "Vrij Nederland" newspaper, 28 April 1945; - Article from the "Het Parool" newspaper including a report that according to Felix Kersten, Hitler's intention was to deport the entire Dutch population to Poland, 13 September 1947; - Liberation edition of "De Waarheid", the journal of the Communist party in the Netherlands, 09 May 1945; - Copy of the...

File Number : 17.5

Type of Material : Newspaper, Brochure

Language : Dutch

Testimony of Vardit Meyer, born in Borken, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences as a refugee in various hiding places in the Netherlands

Testimony

Testimony of Vardit Meyer, born in Borken, Germany, 1929, regarding her experiences as a refugee in various hiding places in the Netherlands Her family background; community life; antisemitism; move to the Netherlands, August 1938. German occupation, May 1940; detention of her father, 08 October 1941; "Aktions"; deportation of her sister to Sobibor, 1942; life in hiding in Arnhem, Amsterdam, Zeist, Driebruggen, Wageningen and Veenendaal, from 1942; detention of her mother, April 1943; informing on by collaborators; air-raids; evacuation of residents from Driebruggen; liberation, 12 April 1945. Aliya...

File Number : 9931

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yona Goren, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1920, regarding her experiences in Barneveld camp, Westerbork and Theresienstadt

Testimony

Testimony of Yona Goren, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1920, regarding her experiences in Barneveld camp, Westerbork and Theresienstadt Her family; her father is a foreman in a diamond polishing workshop; witness attains a high school education; work as a secretary in the French Embassy in the Netherlands and for the Joodse Raad, Jewish Council, in Amsterdam. Inclusion of the witness on the Barneveld list; Barneveld camp life in a castle that was converted into a camp and whose inmates were supposedly under protection; transfer to Westerbork camp where the Barneveld group had privileges; camp life...

File Number : 9848

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Maor, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1938, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Netherlands

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Maor, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1938, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Netherlands Family background; rabbinic, respected family. Life while hidden by Christian families in the Netherlands during the war. Location of the witness by his mother in the home of a Dutch family that wanted to adopt him after the war; this family was recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations"; witness keeps contact with the family; aliya to Israel with Youth Aliyah; life in a religious institution and on Kibbutz Tirat Zvi.

File Number : 9707

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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