NIOD ImageLab

War & Visual Culture from World War II to the Digital Age.
An @NIODAmsterdam project made possible with the support of @_KNAW.

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This photograph was taken by Herman Heukels. Read @Machlien Vlasblom’s article about the Heukels brothers on the ImageLab website: https://t.co/8NrajQmNJb

📷 20/06/1943. Photographer: Herman Heukels. Collection: NIOD, no. 96766.

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Jewish people awaiting deportation to Camp Westerbork at the sports complex on Olympiaplein in Amsterdam, 20 June 1943.

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@NIODImageLab @JoodsErfgoed De man rechts is Jacob Hoogman. In de oorlog en daarna woonachtig in de Herman Costerstraat, Den Haag. De familie Hoogman ontvingen eind jaren 90 postuum een onderscheiding van Yad Vashem.

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The man standing in the center of the image is Louis Rood (The Hague, 26-03-1906 - Auschwitz, 01-09-1943). The identities of the other men are unknown.

This photo was taken in transit camp Westerbork.

📷1942. Collection: NIOD, no. 216155.

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Sluzker went into hiding in 1944 and survived the war.

📷 Summer of 1943. Collection: NIOD, no. 96756.

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Members of the Jewish Council receive instructions from a German officer during a transport to transit camp Westerbork departing from Amsterdam Oost.

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The man wearing a white arm-band on the right of the image is Edwin Sluzker (1907-1965), lawyer and head of the Expositur, a section of the Jewish Council that acted as a liaison with the ‘Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung Amsterdam’.

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The photograph was taken by amateur photographer G.H. Krüger, a law student who began taking photographs in May 1940. In 1943, he took a number of photos in Amsterdam’s Jewish Quarter.

📷 February 1943. Photographer: G.H. Krüger. Collection: NIOD, no. 209948.

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Unidentified people, at least one of whom is wearing a Yellow Star, on Sint Antoniesbreestraat in Amsterdam in February 1943.

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The second man on the right is Ernst Wolff, a German refugee from Vreden who survived the war.

📷 Spring/Summer 1942. Collection: NIOD, no. 66206

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Provisions for Camp Westerbork could be bought in the nearby villages of Hooghalen, Beilen, and Westerbork. This photo shows three, possibly four, members of the Ordedienst wearing a Yellow Star on their overalls, and a member of the Dutch police.

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📷 20/06/1943. Photographer: Herman Heukels. Collection: NIOD, no. 96717.

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According to USHMM, the couple shown in the foreground of this photograph are Margaretha Prins and her husband Ernst Kantorowicz. We have verified Kantorowicz’ identity, but are still unsure about whether the woman in the photograph is Margaretha Prins.

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This image was taken by Nazi photographer Herman Heukels. For more information about Heukels, see Machlien Vlasblom’s book ‘Wij waren supermannen’ and articles by @Machlien and @HistK at https://t.co/8NrajQmNJb.

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Tom (Israël) de Jong (10 October 1924 - 9 May 1978) was a student at the school. Tom, his parents, and his three siblings all survived the war.

📷 May 1942 - June 1943. Collection: NIOD, no. 222536.

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This photograph was taken at the A.B. Davidsschool, a Jewish trade school in Amsterdam. The school closed before the summer of 1943, when almost all students and faculty members had gone into hiding or had been deported.

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After nine months in Westerbork, Horneman was transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

📷 1944. Photographer: Rudolf Werner Breslauer. Collection: NIOD, no. 97322.

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Willem Horneman (8 December 1916 - 3 September 1990) shown working as a blacksmith in Camp Westerbork. In 1944, he was arrested while working for the resistance in Apeldoorn and sent to Westerbork as a political prisoner.

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The event will also be live-streamed on the SPUI25 website: https://t.co/vKCAZTgGWd

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Join us for the public roundtable exploring the visual culture of the global Cold War. See our website for more information and for registration. 

Public Roundtable – 25 May 2023 – 5-7 pm CEST – at SPUI25 Amsterdam

https://t.co/LJ53dd1KOI