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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.
Books
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"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.
"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
http://www.jewishgen.org
and then click on the JewishGen archives link of 12/18/99
on page 7.
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
http://www.jhm.nl/
www.hollandscheschouwburg.nl
"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
Dutch Genealogy
Information
A valuable
site to help find a person, maps, etc. is
http://www.webhelp.com/home
and type in the name of any country
you wish to research. This service is free.
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.
www.calle.com/world/
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 18-th
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 as 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
and can be read in both Dutch and English.
Amsterdam
- there was a large Jewish presence here before WW II
Archives -
State Archives - in The Hague
http://www.archief.nl
Gemeentelijke
Archiefdienst Rotterdam (City)
Robert Fruinstraat 52
Postbox 25082
3001 HB Rotterdam
Phone: +31 10 4775166
Gemeentearchief
Rotterdam
Hofdijk 651
3032 CG 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/
http://gemeentearchief.amsterdam.nl/archieven/index.nl.html
Rijksarchief
In Zuid-Holland (Province)
Pr. Willem Alexanderhof 20
2509 LM 's Gravenhage
Telephone: +31 70 3315400
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
Web Site
http://www.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
mentioned in ETSI. The article can be found in the Winter
issue
of ETSI (Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Review of 1999
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/1321/
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
http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/flanders.htm
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
http://users.erols.com/jyselman/
for more on Spinoza. These Sephardic Jews were, on the average,
darker than the Ashkenazic Jews of northern Europe, so an
explanation like Black Dutch suited them well.
Dutch
Database (in Dutch)
www.genlias.nl
Dutch
Forced Labor
http://home.fox.nstn.ca/~avg/indexenglish.htm
Note:
This site works sometimes and sometimes not.
There was a
Jewish work camp Twilhaar, near Nijverdal in the
province of Overijssel in the Netherlands according to a posting
by Alex Alferink on JewishGen 9/6/03. The following web
site about Twilhaar, is in Dutch but does have photos
www.geocities.com/twilhaar/index.html
Dutch Jewish
Genealogy - home page includes a section on letter
translations, some pre-written letters in different languages and
a list of people who offer to do translations for you
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/DJGH/
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
http://dutchjewry.huji.ac.il/maineng/upload/genealogy/main.html
Dutch Jewry on
the Internet -
http://shum.huji.ac.il/~dutchjew/genealog/djgdb.html=20
Center for
Research on Dutch Jewry
Ben Zion Dinur Institute for Jewish History
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Givat Ram Campus
91904 Jerusalem
Israel
Tel: 00972 2
6584889
Fax: 6584506
Email dutchjew@cc.huji.ac.il
Tracing Our
Dutch Ancestors -
www.jgsgb.org.uk/
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
http://www.nationaletelefoongids.nl/
Europages -
business 2 business company directory and business in Europe,
yellow pages access, international and European business directory
(professional services, addresses and business classifieds
http://www.europages.net
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://www.auschwitz.dk/Miepgies.htm
http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/miep.htm
Genealogical
Research in the Netherlands and Germany
http://www.oord.org
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
Hofdijk 651
3032 CG Rotterdam
Holocaust
Victims at Sobibor Camp Database
http://www.snunit.k12.il/sachlav/dutch/maineng/search.html
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
http://www.obd.nl/gaz.htm
Jewish Communities
Organization of Dutch Jewish communities
Amsterdam 1081 BT, Netherlands
Jewish Social Services
Amsterdam 1075 HJ, Netherlands
Jewish
Historical Museum - located in Amsterdam
Nazi
Concentration Camps in the Netherlands
http://www.cympm.com/concentration.html
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.
http://www.nljewgen.org/
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
http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/rtd_facts.html
Sephardic
Resources in Holland -
http://orthohelp.com/geneal/sefardim.htm
Also
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
http://www.inter.nl.net/users/DJGH
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
http://www.worldlanguage.com
Translating
Services - Click
Here
TravLang
is another commercial site that offers a number of translating
services - some for free
http://www.dictionaries.travlang.com/
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.
Note:
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not included in my site and I will be happy to add it to
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Web Index
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