Anne Frank Stichting (Anne Frank Foundation), Amsterdam, Netherlands Arolsen Archives (formerly International Tracing Service), Bad Arolsen, Germany Bundesarchiv Berlin (Federal Archives Berlin), Berlin, Germany Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (German Literature Archive Marbach), Marbach, Germany Gedenkst?tte und Museum Sachsenhausen (Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen), Oranienburg, Germany Groninger Archieven (Groningen Archives), Groningen, Netherlands Haags Gemeentearchief (Hague City Archives), Den Haag, Netherlands Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork (Memorial Center Camp Westerbork), Hooghalen, Netherlands Historisch Centrum Overijssel (Historical Center Overijssel), Zwolle, Netherlands Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Nationaal Archief (National Archives), Den Haag, Netherlands The National Archives at College Park, MD
Nationaal Monument Oranjehotel, Scheveningen, Netherlands Nederlands Dagboekarchief (National Diary Archives), Amsterdam, Netherlands NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands Noord-Hollands Archief (North Holland Archives), Haarlem, Netherlands ?sterreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives), Vienna, Austria Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles
Russian State Military Archive, Moscow, Russia
Simon Wiesenthal Center, Vienna, Austria
Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam City Archives), Amsterdam, Netherlands Streekarchief Gooi en Vechtstreek (Regional Archives of Gooi and Vechtstreek), Hilversum, Netherlands United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education, Los Angeles Verzetsmuseum (Resistance Museum), Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, UK
Wiener Stadt-und Landesarchiv (City and Provincial Archives of Vienna), Vienna, Austria.
Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem, Israel
Glossary
Abteilung Hausraterfassung (Household Inventory Agency): The department that dealt with the confiscation of Jewish household goods, which were subsequently transported to Germany. This department fell under the Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung and also worked closely with the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ER) and the Lippmann-Rosenthal bank. The Henneicke Column worked for this department.
Abwehr: German military intelligence.
Amersfoort camp: A German police concentration and transit camp in the Netherlands south of the city of Amersfoort. It was operational from August 1941 to April 1945. During that period 37,000 people were incarcerated there, of whom around 20,000 were deported to camps in the east. Around 670 people died in the camp.
Anne Frank Fonds (AFF): A foundation established in Basel, Switzerland, in 1963 by Otto Frank. It represents the Frank family, distributes Anne’s diary, and manages copyrights.
Anne Frank Stichting (AFS) (Anne Frank Foundation): The Amsterdam-based foundation established in 1957 by Otto Frank. Originally established to save the Anne Frank House and Annex from demolition, the foundation is also entrusted with the management of property and the propagating of Anne’s story and her ideals. The AFS organizes exhibitions and information about Anne Frank all over the world and is also committed to fighting anti-Semitism and racism.
Arbeitseinsatz: Forced labor for workers from the occupied territories during World War II to replace the labor of the German men who served as soldiers. In the Netherlands, Arbeitseinsatz was mandatory from January 1942. Men who would not respond to their call-up had to go into hiding.
Arrest Tracking Project: An investigative initiative by the Cold Case Team to research all arrests of Jews in 1943 and 1944 to determine the modi operandi of the Jew hunters: who worked with whom, what methods they used, how they obtained information, and so on.
Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau) concentration camp: The largest concentration and death camp in the Third Reich. It consisted of almost forty subcamps, of which Birkenau was the largest. It was established in 1942 near the south Polish city of O?wi?cim. During the war almost 1 million people, predominantly Jews, were exterminated there.
Bergen-Belsen camp: One of the larger prisoner of war and concentration camps, near Celle in the north of Germany, where more than seventy thousand people died during the Second World War. This is the camp where Anne and Margot died in early 1945.
Besluit Buitengewone Rechtspleging (Special Justice Act): A special law drawn up by the Dutch government in exile in London at the end of 1943; it regulated the organization and prosecution of people who had collaborated with the Germans or were considered war criminals.
Bureau Joodse Zaken (BJA) (Bureau of Jewish Affairs): Originally a department of the Amsterdam police charged with detecting violations of Jewish measures imposed by the Germans in the occupied Netherlands. After the Netherlands was declared “Jew free” in 1943, the officers of this unit were assigned to department IV B4 of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and predominantly hunted Jews in hiding.
Bureau Nationale Veiligheid (BNV) (Bureau of National Security): A provisional postwar Dutch intelligence and security service (founded in 1945). It later became the Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD), or Internal Security Service, and is now known as the Algemene Inlichtingen-en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD), or General Intelligence and Security Service.
Centraal Archief van de Bijzondere Rechtspleging (CABR) (Central Archives of Extraordinary Justice): The special archive of all cases that were brought to justice after the war under the Special Justice Act of 1943 by the exiled Dutch government in London. It is kept for the most part at the Nationaal Archief (National Archives) in The Hague.
Colonne Henneicke (Henneicke Column): A group of over fifty Dutch Nazi collaborators, led by the (partly) German Wim Henneicke. They were active as bounty hunters in the period between March and October 1943. The group is estimated to have been responsible for the deportation of more than eight thousand Jews. The group worked for the Abteilung Hausraterfassung.
Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen (CJV) (Committee for Jewish Refugees): An aid organization set up in the Netherlands to accommodate the growing number of Jewish refugees from Germany; active between 1933 and 1941. The CJV mediated in matters concerning emergency relief, education, emigration, exit visas, and residence permits.
Dachau concentration camp: The first concentration camp in Nazi Germany, established in 1933 in the vicinity of Munich. Almost fifty thousand people died in Dachau.
Dolle Dinsdag (Mad Tuesday): September 5, 1944. After major Allied advances, the rumor spread that the Netherlands would be liberated at any moment. The Dutch started to celebrate openly, and Germans and collaborators fled on a large scale. Ultimately, the Allied advance was limited to the southern part of the Netherlands, and the Germans held out for another eight months.
Einsatzstab (Operation Staff) Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ER): A Nazi looting organization named after Alfred Rosenberg that systematically stole artwork and cultural goods from the German-occupied countries and took them to Germany.
Euterpestraat: The name commonly used for the Amsterdam Sicherheitsdienst (SD) headquarters located at Euterpestraat 99, Amsterdam, opposite the Zentralstelle building at Adama van Scheltema Square, which also housed the IV B4 Jew-hunting unit.
Expositur: The office of the Jewish Council, responsible for liaising with the German authorities.