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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 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 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 A valuable
site to help find a person, maps, etc. is 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 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
Amsterdam - there was a large Jewish presence here before WW II 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 Dutch
Database (in Dutch) Dutch
Forced Labor 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 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 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 Jewry on
the Internet - Center for
Research on Dutch Jewry Tel: 00972 2
6584889 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 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 HAL Shipping
Line - many immigrants left Holland via this line and
the line's records are available at 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 - Also 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. Note: Please let me know if there is a favorite link of yours that is not included in my site and I will be happy to add it to Jewish Web Index Email Jwebindex@gmail.com more to come ... |
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