nl-002896-mf759708
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appraisal: During the editing of the archive only duplicates were destroyed.
archival history: The archive covers the period 1941-1943. The archive of the Jewish Council has not been preserved in its entirety. During the occupation the Germans confiscated and destroyed parts. Also, reports and conversations of chairman D. Cohen with the German authorities have likely been lost. Cohen secretly dictated these reports to his secretary miss F.D. de Lange. Minutes of the Jewish Council from 13 February until 24 June 1941 are also missing . The archive that employees and departments of the Jewish Council made has never been stored in one central place. First off, that is because the departments of the Jewish Council were spread across different locations in the city. Secondly, the provincial representatives kept their archives in their own secretariat. The consequences of this decentralised storage system are felt when they were received by the RIOD. In most cases it is not possible to find out when the RIOD received these documents. As far as can be traced, the following documents were transferred to the RIOD over a period of twenty years. The first transfer was in 1953 by former chairman David Cohen. He bestowed the archive to the chairmen"with a few other document". In the annual report of that year"preserved piece" were mentioned which indicates that the archive was incomplete. Nevertheless, the chairman archive was characterised as an"acquisition whose value to the documentation of the persecution of the Jews cannot be mentioned enoug". A year later, Cohen supplemented his gift with annotations of his conversations with representatives of the Sicherheitspolizei. In 1962 the RIOD received for packets with documents from the department Groningen which was followed three years later by three quarter of a meter of material from the department Zutphen. Lastly, the annual report of 1975 mentions receiving a map of newsletters over the period August 1942 till January 1943.
biographical history: Geschiedenis Op 12 februari 1941 gaf de Beauftragter des Reichskommissars für die Stadt Amsterdam, Böhmcker, aan Abraham Asscher (diamant-industrieel te Amsterdam) opdracht onmiddellijk een"Judenra" te vormen, die uit twintig personen zou moeten bestaan. Asscher was van mening, dat bij het samenstellen van die raad tevens prof.dr. David Cohen diende te worden betrokken, die hij sinds jaren uit tal van besturen en commissies kende; deze had voorts o.m. als voorzitter van het Joodsche Vluchtelingencomité van 1933 af een intensief contact gehad met Nederlandse autoriteiten. Cohen verklaarde zich bereid aan de totstandkoming van de raad mee te werken en beiden deden op 12 en 13 februari daartoe een aantal uitnodigingen uitgaan, welke door zeventien personen werd aanvaard. De Joodsche Raad: met de armen overelkaar aan tafel zit Asscher, aan zijn linker zijde zit Cohen. Het bovenstaande werd ontleend aan dr. L. de Jong:"Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlo", deel 5, pag's 517-519. Zie voor samenstelling, organisatie etc. van de Joodsche Raad de overige passages daaromtrent in dit deel, alsmede in de delen 6 en 7, en verder o.m. de ten Institute aanwezige dossiers Documentatie I-294 (prof.dr. D. Cohen) en II-366A (Joodsche Raad). Wat de indeling van de stukken betreft: deze zijn gesplitst in 4 delen, t.w. het archief dat is gevormd door de voorzitters, het archief van de verschillende afdelingen, een aantal zgn. onderwerpmappen en het archief van enkele vertegenwoordigers van de raad in de provincie. Opgemerkt dient te worden, dat in enkele gevallen gemakshalve de door de Joodsche Raad zelf reeds gemaakte ordening is gehandhaafd bijv., waar het de alfabetische indeling van correspondentie betreft, op naam van de straat waar de diverse kantoren van de raad waren gevestigd, en binnen enkele omvangrijke mappen een"omgekeerd" chronologische volgorde (het laatste stuk boven); dit dus in afwijking van de ten Institute geldende regels. Voorts zij vermeld, dat i… @nl
biographical history: The Jewish Council for Amsterdam: with his arms crossed sitting at the table is Asscher, on his left is Cohen. Cause for establishing the Jewish Council were continuous riots in Amsterdam, provoked and caused by WAs . Late January 1941 groups of WA-men went from Vondelpark into the city centre to hang up signs with"Jews not wante" in hotels, cafés and restaurants. They caused a disturbance by removing Jewish passengers from trams. WAs in uniform marched singing through Jewish neighbourhoods, abused passer-by's and forced entry into Jewish homes to destroy furniture or loot belongings. The owner of café-cabaret Alcazar on Thorbeckeplein refused to hang the sign"Jews not allowe" and had to watch how some WAs threw a bicycle through his window and destroy the furniture on 9 February. During subsequent fights dozens of people were injured. It quickly escalated into a battleground between Jewish thugs and the WA. The Jews were supported by people from the workers neighbourhoods Jordaan and Kattenburg; the WA was supported by German military who fought alongside them sometimes. Dutch police and military police attempted to come between them, some even used their service guns, but they were stopped by the German police. During a fight on Waterlooplein on Tuesday evening 11 February, WA-man Hendrik Koot was heavily wounded and died three days later. The German occupation authorities immediately exploited Koot's death and exaggerated the circumstances. Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Hanns Albin Rauter reported to his Berlin chief Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler that a Jews bit through Koot's artery and sucked him dry . His subordinate, Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Wilhelm Harster, wrote in his weekly report of happenings that"ein Jude in viehischer Weise in die Kehle seines Opfers verbissen hatt" . And Hans Böhmcker, Beuftragte für die Stadt Amsterdam, told Reichskommisar Seyss-Inquart that a Jew completely sunk his teeth into Koot's face . The German reacti…
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physical characteristics and technical requirements: The condition of most the materials is such that they can be consulted in normal fashion in the study hall of the NIOD.
accruals: Accruals are not expected.
conditions of access: The archive is largely open to the public. Only inventory numbers 72; 75; 76; 87; 101; 144-146; 157; 161; 166; 168; 195; 199; 209; 237-239; 255-261; 263, 265, 290 and 306 require written approval from the director of the NIOD. Researchers can apply in writing to the director of the NIOD.
conditions of access: Openbaarheid Het archief is grotendeels openbaar. De inventarisnummers 72; 75; 76; 87; 101; 144-146; 157; 161; 166; 168; 195; 199; 209; 237-239;255-261; 263, 265 en 290 zijn slechts raadpleegbaar na verkregen schriftelijke toestemming van de directeur van het NIOD. Onderzoekers kunnen zich daartoe schriftelijk wenden tot de directeur van het NIOD. @nl
conditions of use: Subject to the general rules on copying documents there are not limitations for reproduction.
has beginning date: 1940-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
has or had holder: nl-002896
has or had identifier: 1
has record set type: Fonds
identifier: MF759708
includes or included: nl-002896-mf759708-mf1514257
includes or included: nl-002896-mf759708-mf2828709
includes or included: nl-002896-mf759708-mf1514357
includes or included: nl-002896-mf759708-mf2828708
includes or included: nl-002896-mf759708-mf2828707
note: De Joodsche Raad werd in februari 1941 opgericht na een aantal gesprekken met de Beauftragter des Reichskommissars für die Stadt Amsterdam, Hans Böhmcker. De Joodsche Raad, onder voorzitterschap van Abraham Asscher en David Cohen, vertegenwoordigde de joodse gemeenschap bij de Duitse en de Nederlandse overheid. Verder was de Raad belast met een deel van de uitvoering van de maatregelen ten aanzien van joden die door de Duitse autoriteiten werden afgekondigd. Hoewel de naam anders doet vermoeden, vertegenwoordigde de Joodsche Raad alle Nederlandse joden. De Raad had een afdeling in het Judendurchgangslager Westerbork (collectie 250 i). @nl
note: Enkele inventarisnummers van dit archief zijn beperkt openbaar. Details staan vermeld in de rubriek"openbaarhei". @nl
note: Most of the documents are in Dutch and Germans.
record resource extent: 7,9 meter (305 inventarisnummers) @nl
record resource source of information: citation and request instruction
record resource source of information: Documents from this archive can be requested in the study hall of the NIOD quoting: archive 182, inv nr…
record resource source of information: When citing in foot-notes and as justification the archive needs to be mentioned in full without abbreviations at least once. After that a shorter citation suffices: NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, archief 182 Jewish Council for Amsterdam, inv.no. ... NIOD, archive 182 Jewish Council, inv. nr. ...
record resource structure: During its two and a half year existence, the Jewish Council changed constantly. It is therefore not possible to make an all encompassing organisation chart. The Guide of the Jewish Council for Amsterdam was therefore chosen as a base for the classification of the archive. This depicts the organisation mid March 1943. The classification of the archive mimics this situation. The archive consists of five parts. The organisation structure is mirrored closely in the four rubrics"chairme","department","committee", and"national bureau". Internally these rubrics are ordered like the Guide for the Jewish Councils for Amsterdam. In the final rubric, documents about specific topics were gathered. During the first classification in 1986 the method was justified as follows: It should be noted that for the sake of convenience the classification done by the Jewish Council was kept, for instance the alphabetical order of correspondence, the order of street names where offices were situated, and within some large folders where reversed chronological order was used (the last document is on top); these are deviations from the Institutional guidelines. Furthermore, it should be noted that in the text of this inventory and the lists of content the Jewish Council for Amsterdam is simply referred to as Jewish Council. When it concerns council departments from other places it will be mentioned separately.
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scope and content: The archive consists of correspondence, newsletters and financial documents from the chairmen of the Jewish Council and various departments and bureaus. The documents give insight into German policy and the fate of individual Jews.
title: Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam @nl
title: Jewish Council for Amsterdam