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Many Dutch Jews can trace their roots back to the time of the Inquisition. The contemporary Dutch Jewry begins at the end of the 16th century. Others may be able to find ancestors who came from other Eastern European countries. In any case, their is a very active Jewish community and is continually building up their resources. General birth, marriage and death records, in Holland, do go back to the 1500s. Jews were granted freedom of worship early in the 17th century and were able to practice Judaism openly. Prior to WW II, there were approximately 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands, but by war's end, over 100,000 Dutch Jews had been murdered ... most by the Nazis ... but some by Dutch collaborators. Seventy five percent of Dutch Jews perished during the Holocaust, the highest percentage in any country in Nazi-occupied Europe, except for Poland Among the 18,000 Righteous Gentiles officially recognized by Yad Vashem, 4,000 are Dutch, by far the largest national contingent in Europe. Today the Dutch Jewish population numbers about 30,000 in a general population of almost 16,000,000. The name "Netherlands" is derived from the Dutch word "neder" meaning "low". The term Low Countries is used collectively for Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, a reference to the low-lying nature of the land.
"The Coffee Trader" - a novel authored by David Liss and published by Random House. A story about a Portuguese Jews who arrives in Amsterdam in 1659. He goes to the Ma'amad (council), an organization of Portuguese Jews who teach him about Judaism. Gives an insight into the life and time of a 'secret' Jew.
"History Of The Jews Of The Netherland
Antilles" - authored by Isaac S. Emmanuel and Susan A. Emmanuel "In Memoriam" a story about 40 Jewish boys and girls who lived in a Kibbutz in Hummelo en Keppel in Holland during the years 1941-43 and their fate. ISBN 9012091785. A list of these names can be found at Another location for the "In Memoriam" book that lists the names, dates of birth and death and place of death of all of the Dutch Jews that were killed during the WW II is "Trouwen In Mokum" - two volumes that is organized by date and by bride, groom's parents' and witnesses' first and last names and towns of origins, plus a Sephardic section. It is available through inter-library loan or for sale at the Municipal Archive of Amsterdam. General
Jewish Manuscript
A valuable site to help find a person, maps, etc.
Global Gazetteer is a great web site. It is a directory of
2,880,532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town. A tab separated list is available for each country. I found some interesting information at a family web site: " History Spanjaard Salomon Jacob Spanjaard, a young
German Jew, lived in Zwolle (eastern part of the Netherlands) at the end of the 18th century.
Zwolle -even more so than Amsterdam at that moment- was a city where Jews lived in relative freedom and were not being haunted. He originally came from
Bodendorf near Remagen, close to the Rhine between Bonn and
Koblenz. He was born 13 December 1783 as a son from Dorothea Simons and Jacob. As many Jews at that time he tried to make a living as a merchant, selling form city to city. At one of his travels, while he probably was bearing his merchandise on his back, he passed
Borne. Somewhat outside that village lived David van Gelder, merchant in a variety of things, but mainly furs, and Berendina Menko. In 1811 Salomon married their daughter Sara. A year later when everybody was forced to have a surname by the
French regime, Salomon let himself be registered as Salomon Jacob Spanjaard. How he got to the name 'Spanjaard' is not known. A plausible theory is that ‘Spanjaard’ signifies a small, dark personality, possibly an offspring from the
Spanish occupation some two centuries before. Because of a bad eye he was also known as ‘Sallie Eenoog’, 'Sally One eye'." This interesting site can be found at www.berithsalom.nl Amsterdam
There was a large Jewish presence here before WW II.
Amsterdam has been an important center for the world's diamond trade since
the 16th century. http://www.planetware.com/amsterdam/jewish-quarter-nl-nh-jode.htm One of the most
important sites to see in this city is the Anne Frank house. Archives - State Archives - in The Hague Gemeentelijke Archiefdienst Rotterdam (City) Gemeentearchief Rotterdam Municipal Archive of Amsterdam - according to an e-mail from Shoshannah van Amerongen of Amsterdam, this is a valuable resource for genealogical research and they specialize in helping people trace their Jewish roots. The site is in Dutch language. There is also a second site that Shoshannah mentions in which it gives more information about Jewish families in Amsterdam. http://gemeentearchief.amsterdam.nl/archieven/index.nl.html Rijksarchief In Zuid-Holland (Province) Ashkenazi Dutch Jews
Research and information on the immigrant Dutch Ashkenazi community in mid nineteenth century London including Downloads of Census extracts (Spitalfields) and library of relevant archival documents and quite a bit more developed by Aubrey Jacobus - E-mail zen28027@zen.co.uk Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/sefardim.htm Cemeteries Ouderkerk aan de Amstel is located near Amsterdam. A book is Compensation for the post-war restoration of securities rights and the Puttkammer List in the Netherlands - The Central Jewish board in the Netherlands and the Israel Platform of former Dutchman in Israel have established a foundation to award war claims. More information can be obtained by contacting: Stichting Individuele Effectenaanspraken Sjoa, Postbus 94200 (1C24) 1090 GE Amsterdam The Netherlands Digital Resources in the Netherlands, including passenger lists http://home.wxs.nl/~hjdewit/links_en.html Dutch and Belgian Jews were sometimes called Black Dutch in America because they spoke Dutch or Flemish and were darker than the other Dutch and Flemish. They had only recently moved to the Netherlands and Belgium (then Spanish Netherlands) from Iberia (Portugal and Spain). When Spain annexed Portugal for a while, many Portuguese Jews fled to Spanish Flanders to escape the Inquisition for Flanders as part of Spanish Netherlands). Most, like the famous philosopher Baruch Spinoza, crossed into Protestant Netherlands for greater freedom of expression and religion for more on Spinoza Dutch Database (in Dutch) Dutch Forced Labor
http://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/4627 Dutch Jewish Genealogy Dutch Jewish
Genealogy Society Home Page Dutch Jewish Genealogical Data Base -
Links include Family Tree Collection; Inventory of Ashkenazi-Jewish Inhabitants of Amsterdam in the Eight Century; Links to Personal Home Pages with Genealogical information and more
Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust searchable database The
following page is in Dutch Dutch Jewry on the Internet Center for Research on Dutch Jewry Tel: 00972 2 6584889 http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/2005/11/disappearing-dutch-jew.html Tracing Our Dutch Ancestors
Dutch Telephone Phone Book Search Engine Type in a name and you can find names and phone numbers in all of Holland. I even found a Margulis in Amsterdam complete with address and phone number Enschede This town had 1,310 Jewish inhabitants in 1941 Europages Business 2 business company directory and business in Europe, yellow pages access, international and European business directory (professional services, addresses and business classifieds Frank, Anne Who betrayed her to the Nazis? According to a recent study, Two theories suggest the betrayer of the teenager, whose diary has become a standard of Holocaust studies, was either a business associate of Frank's father or a cleaning woman. Miep Gies and The Diary of Anne Frank http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/miep.htm Genealogical Research in the Netherlands and Germany Groenlo There was a Jewish presence here in the 1800s. Groningen Three hundred year old Jewish cemetery exists here. Rene de Vries is the Chair of the Jewish Community of Groningen HAL Shipping Line - many immigrants left Holland via this line and the line's records are available at Gemeentearchief Rotterdam Holocaust Victims at Sobibor Camp Database http://snunit.k12.il/sachlav/dutch/maineng/search.html http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sobibor.html http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Sobibortoc.html Index on Birth Registers of Zwollerkerspel 1811 - 1912 online at The Municipal Archives of Zwolle Jewish Communities Jewish Social Services Jewish Historical Museum - located in Amsterdam Nazi Concentration Camps in the Netherlands Netherlands Society for Jewish Genealogy (Nederlandse Kring voor Joodse Genealogie) - includes sources and archives in the Netherlands on the subject of Jewish genealogy, publications by the society and by individual members. You can order "Adoption of Surnames in Amsterdam" from the Society. Rotterdam - the city of Rotterdam has been officially in existence since 1328, when Count Willem III granted 'city rights' for the town that had been growing around a dam in the river Rotte. The story of the city, including history, facts and figures in a virtual tour is located at Sephardic Resources in Holland - http://www.jewishgen.org/sephardicsig/ A free service to trace surnames in the Netherlands is offered by Sefan Pinkus. He has established a network of Jewish genealogists, both amateur (like himself) and professional, in different countries. Their e-mail addresses are included in the Dutch Jewish Genealogy Homepage The Israeli Circle for Dutch Genealogy of the Center for Research on Dutch Jewry - Hebrew University in Jerusalem. e-mail dutchjew@huji.ac.il or bnnch@zahav.net.il Utrecht - there was a Jewish presence here before WW II Translating Many translating programs Translating Services - Click Here TravLang is another commercial site that offers a number of translating services - some for free Just in case you didn't think of it, contact a nearby university or college's foreign language department. They may offer to write letters and translate letters into English. A nominal fee is usually charged. Yizkor Books
Pinkas hakehillot, Holland
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