Territorial collection-Holland (RG-116-Holland)

Source of acquisition is the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO), RG-116-Holland. This collection of mixed provenance was accumulated at YIVO over a span of forty-six years (1945-1991). The material in this collection was generated by German military and civil authorities, Dutch national and municipal authorities, and the Judenrat of Amsterdam, and its numerous departments and sub-divisions. The Dutch Red Cross material (folders 52.1-26), was generated right after the war by their extensive information gathering activities and their attempts to publicize information about victims of the Holocaust and how they met their deaths. The Jewish religious, cultural, and educational institutions and organizations of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and other Dutch cities, and the private individuals who produced their correspondence and preserved their personal documents of governmental and communal origin, round out the picture of the sources of the material we now find in this collection. The collection does not contain any entire group of records pertaining to an individual or larger entity, but only various fragments of such records. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from YIVO via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2014.