Collection of David Cohen, head of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council) and leader of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1922-1954

Collection of David Cohen, head of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council) and leader of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1922-1954 

Collection of David Cohen, head of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council) and leader of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1922-1954 

Article Correspondence Document Laws and decrees Letter Newspaper Testimony 

Collection of David Cohen, head of the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council) and leader of the Jewish community in the Netherlands, 1922-1954 Included in the collection: Testimonies in favor of Professor David Cohen, from a trial held against him after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1947-1948; Various documents submitted by Professor David Cohen to his lawyers during the trial held against him and against A. Asscher in the Netherlands after the war, 1947-1949; Documents regarding the possibilities for emigration for Jews from the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation period, 1943; Letters and personal documents of Professor David Cohen from before, during and after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1922-1954; Documents regarding Jewish children who arrived to the Netherlands as refugees from Germany before the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, 1939-1940; Various regulations and decrees regarding the Jews on the part of the German occupation authorities in the Netherlands, 1942-1943; Documents regarding the fate of Dutchmen, Jews and non-Jews in Theresienstadt camp, dated, 1939-1946; Documents regarding the absorption of Jewish refugees in the Netherlands before the Nazi occupation, 1938-1940; Correspondence by the Joodsche Raad in the Netherlands, and various documents regarding the Joodsche Raad, 1941-1948; Reports and protocols regarding the problem of the refugees in the Netherlands, 1935-1945; Several articles by Professor David Cohen, chairman of the Joodsche Raad during the Nazi occupation period in the Netherlands, 1945; Correspondence with Professor David Cohen, regarding the fate of Jewish inmates from the Netherlands before and during the war, including in Theresienstadt camp, dated, 1945-1947; Copies of articles published in the Dutch press, regarding the arrest of David Cohen and Abraham Asscher, and regarding the negative opinion regarding them by the Jewish"Honor Committe", 1947-1948; Several letters regarding foreign help to Dutch Jews during the Nazi occupation period and immediately afterwards, 1945-1948; Various documents regarding, among others, the Jewish refugees"Dor" ship, regarding what was known in the Netherlands about what was happening in the concentration and extermination camps during the war, and regarding the visit by Goering in Asscher's diamond factory in Amsterdam, dated, 1938-1949.