Collection of the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - Committee for Jewish Refugees, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1939

Collection of the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - Committee for Jewish Refugees, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1939
 
 Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - the Committee for Jewish Refugees in the Netherlands was established in Amsterdam in 1933; the function of the committee was the coordination of relief activities for Jewish refugees who arrived from Germany; the committee was active in the context of the umbrella-organization, Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen - CBJB, the Committee for Special Jewish Affairs established by Professor Dr. D. Cohen, A. Asscher and others; the committees were active, among other activities, in the attempt to prevent the legislation of anti-Jewish legislation in Germany, and the committees cooperated with other Jewish organizations; Professor Dr. D. Cohen was appointed as chairman of the Vluchtelingencomité; the committee's offices were located in Amsterdam on s Gravenhekje 7 Street until 1939, and were located at Lijnbaansgracht 366 afterwards; the policies of the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen established that all of the expenses for the help to refugees would be paid for by the Jewish community in the Netherlands; the committee handled entry visas to the Netherlands, work permits, travel permits, identity cards for the refugees, and the committee represented the refugees in their dealings with the authorities in the Netherlands and Germany; at the first stage the relief activities included: absorption, registration, the finding of housing, and supply of food; at the second stage the committee handled the administration of monies, organized work training and handled matters related to emigration from the Netherlands; Raphaël Henri Eitje and Gertrude van Tijn-Cohn handled the continuous treatment of the refugees; the committee established the "G" department in November 1938, for appeals that were submitted by Jews in the Netherlands for the purpose of receiving political refuge in the Netherlands for their relatives from Germany and Austria; the Germans ordered the dismantling of the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen in 1941; its place was taken by the Joodsche Raad voor Amsterdam (Jewish Council); the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen personnel were deported to Westerbork camp in 1943;
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Documentation of Raphaël Henri Eitje, regarding help to Jewish refugees in the Netherlands, arranged according to subjects N-W, 1936-1937; appeals to the committee in the Netherlands by Jews in Germany and Austria, regarding special cases, for the purpose of obtaining entry visas to the Netherlands; correspondence by Eitje with people and institutions in Paris, Berlin, London and New York, regarding help to refugees for their emigration from the Netherlands, 1938-1939; documentation of "G" cases, in the context of exceptional cases of Jews whose lives are in danger, whom the Dutch government gave permission to enter the country; "Austrian correspondence" and "German correspondence", regarding over 3,000 exceptional cases and their relationship to Jews who were arrested during the riots in Germany in November 1938, whose release was conditional upon their immediate departure from Germany; statistical reports, financial reports, Curriculum Vitae (CV) of refugees, and lists of refugees.