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biographical history: The National Institute for War Documentation owes its existence to two initiatives. At the time of the occupation of the Netherlands a number of academics discussed and contemplated the creation of a postwar center for war documentation to house and undertake the collection and classification of materials about the Netherlands under German occupation. The key figure behind this initiative was the economic historian Professor N.W. Posthumus. On the other side of the North Sea, the Dutch government-in-exile was thinking along the same lines. At the end of March 1944, Bolkestein, the London Minister of Education, Arts and Sciences, made an appeal to the Dutch population (…) Three days after liberation the Staatscourant reported the establishment of the National Office for War Documentation. (…) On 1 October 1945, De Jong was appointed as head of the National Institute for War Documentation, as it was now called. In the meantime, a vigorous start had been with collecting materials. The search for archives about the Netherlands led, among other places, to Allied-occupied Germany. (…) Radio appeals, advertisements in daily newspapers and posters exhorted the Dutch population to send in materials. As a result the Institute received a large number of valuable documents such as diaries, correspondence and photo albums. Research conducted in collaboration with the postwar Special Administration of Justice also produced a large number of documents. (…)Besides conducting research, cataloguing and administering the archives and other collections, the daily activities of the institute generated a third important task. NIOD staff in fact handle numerous requests for information from government agencies, private organizations and private individuals. The work done over the years verifying the many tens of thousands of requests for (war-related) benefits and compensation received by the government certainly deserves a special mention. (…) On 1 January 1999, the RIOD was separated fr…
other finding aids: Document descriptions are available in electronic form at http://www.beeldbankwo2.nl/
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date: 1914 - 1949
has beginning date: 1914-01-01
has end date: 1949-01-01
has or had holder: nl-002896
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