Records relating to Jews in Amsterdam

Identifier
irn509698
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.8
  • RG-41.003M
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Dutch
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn509698

Extent and Medium

193,967 digital images, JPEG

92 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm

4 microfiche,

Archival History

Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stadsarchief

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Amsterdam Municipal Archives (Stadsarchief), Netherlands. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project Division in Jan. 2002. Reels 89 through 92 were accreted to the collection on Oct. 7, 2003.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of records relating to the situation for Jews in Amsterdam, Netherlands, including: German anti-Jewish measures; Jewish schools and education during the German occupation; hospitals and health; transportation; expulsion of Jews from the civil service; Jewish market traders; Aryan declarations and refusals to sign; registration of Jewish property; files on Jews in the Amsterdam population registry; Amsterdam Police records (including documents on collaboration on Jewish deportation); documents from the Mayor of Amsterdam relating to Jews; Jewish-German refugees; the general strike in February 1941; and documents on the discussion to turn the Jewish quarter into a ghetto.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic.

Subjects

  • Jewish day schools--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
  • Jews--Education--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
  • Netherlands--Politics and government--1940-1945.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
  • Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
  • Netherlands--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
  • General Strike, Netherlands, 1941.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
  • Jews, German--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
  • Jewish property--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
  • Refugees, Jewish--Netherlands--Amsterdam.
  • Police--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Genre

  • Document
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Stadsarchief Amsterdam

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stadsarchief