HOLLAND. The collection relates to Jewish life in Holland primarily during the period of Nazi occupation, 1940-1941. Included are records of the Joodsche Raad (Judenrat), the Nazi-appointed Jewish councils in Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam. Reports about anti-Jewish laws. Weekly and monthly reports about deportations, 1942-1943. Communications with internees in the Westerbork concentration camp. Lists of deportees. Memorabilia from Westerbork concentration camp. Materials about the Dutch Nazi movement. Printed matter containing Nazi propaganda. Nazi orders relating to confiscation of Jewish property. Diaries, memoirs and personal documents of Jewish survivors.

Of the post-war materials of special interest are the records of the Dutch Red Cross regarding Dutch Jews in the Nazi camps, lists of camp survivors, clippings about Jewish displaced persons in Holland, reports of Jewish life in Holland, 1946-1955. There is also a small number of documents pertaining to the pre-Holocaust period, including the by-laws of a young men's society named Agoeda Bakuriem in Amsterdam (1790-1840) and financial records of the Rotterdam community in the 19th century.