Does NIOD have information about the persecution of the Jews?

External sources

If you are researching Jewish war victims, you can start with the Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands website. This website contains information about the Jews residing in the Netherlands who died during the Second World War.

Another website with the names of Jewish war victims from all over Europe is The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names. In this Yad Vashem database, you can often find additional information about the victims (Page of Testimony).

The International Tracing Service in Arolsen (Germany) has a vast database with information on victims of persecution by the Nazis, often supplemented with scanned documents. You can search these files by name via the Arolsen website.

Finally, you may want to consult the National Archives, to which the archives of the Dutch Red Cross were added in 2018. Here, too, you may find further information about persons who died during the war.

Archives at NIOD

It is important to realise beforehand that the options for searching NIOD’s finding aids by family name are limited. Many of the archives and collections cannot be searched by name. Please make sure that you have some context information when searching for information about a particular person. The following is a list of archives related to the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War. For each archive, you will find a link to the finding aid.

General

• Generalkommissariat für das Sicherheitswesen (HSSPF) (collection 077)
• Jewish Council of Amsterdam (collection 182)
• Stichting Centraal Bureau van Onderzoek inzake de Vererving van de Nalatenschappen van Vermiste Personen (‘Central Bureau of Investigation into the Inheritance of the Estates of Missing Persons Foundation’) (collection 197a)

NIOD camp archives

• Camp Westerbork (collection 250i)
• Camp Vught (collection 250g)
• Concentration camps outside the Netherlands (collection 250k)

Camp survivors

• Afwikkelingsbureau Concentratiekampen (ABC, ‘Concentration Camp Settlement Bureau’) (collection 250m)
• Camps and prisons outside the Netherlands (collection 250d)

Looting

For a more detailed overview, see the website War Victims WW2 Research Guide 

• Generalkommissariat für Finanz und Wirtschaft (collection 039)
• Omnia Treuhandgesellschaft m.b.H., DRT and Wirtschaftsprüfstelle (collection 094f)
• Omnia Treuhandgesellschaft (collection 094)
• Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand A.G. (collection 094c)
• Einsatztab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (collection 093a)
• Niederländische Aktien-Gesellschaft für Abwicklung von Unternehmungen (collection 177d)

Requests for emigration and exemption from deportation

• Generalkommissariat für das Sicherheitswesen (HSSPF) (collection 077)
• Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (collection 020)
• Mr. G.A.N. Kotting (collection 182c)
• Cabinet of the Department of Home Affairs (BiZa) (collection 101b)
• E.A.P. Puttkammer (collection 181h)
• J.J. Weismann (collection 181c)

Help with hiding

• Stichting Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers en Landelijke Knokploegen (LO-LKP, ‘National Organisation for the Assistance of People in Hiding and National Commando Groups’) (collection 251a)
• Research - Help to Jewish children (collection 471)
• Nationaal Steun Fonds (NSF, National Support Fund) (collection 185b)
• Vrije Groepen Amsterdam (VGA, ‘Free Groups Amsterdam’) (collection 189)
• Nazorg Duikers - Provincie Limburg (‘Aftercare for People in Hiding - Limburg Province’) collection 831)

Post-war history

• Stichting Sieraden Comité (‘Jewellery Committee Foundation’) (collection 197j)
• Le Ezrath Ha-Jeled (collection 197k)