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Third Reich Nazi Dutch Jewish Registration Card - Dutch WWII ”Bewijs van Aanmelding” Jewish Registration Document (1941) A printed ”Bewijs van Aanmelding” (Proof of Registration) form issued under Verordening No. 6/1941 of the Reichskommissar fuer das besetzte niederlaendische Gebiet, concerning the compulsory registration of persons of full or partial Jewish descent. The front carries the printed regulatory text and a certification statement by the registering official, with blank lines for the date of issue, the municipality, and the signature of the burgemeester (mayor). The reverse is a ruled data sheet with printed fields for surname, first name, birth details, last residence, nationality, religious affiliation, profession, marital status, and the number of Jewish grandparents as defined under Article 2 of the regulation. The form on offer is unfilled, with all fields left blank. This document belongs to the registration apparatus set up by the German civil administration in the occupied Netherlands following Verordening 6/1941, which compelled all persons of Jewish descent to register with their local municipality. The resulting records formed the administrative basis for the subsequent persecution and deportation of Dutch Jews, making surviving examples of these forms significant primary source material for the study of the occupation period. Issued under Verordening 6/1941, promulgated by Reichskommissar Arthur Seyss-Inquart's administration, this decree required all persons of full or partial Jewish descent resident in the occupied Netherlands to register with their municipal authorities by early 1941. The resulting registration created a near-complete demographic record of the Dutch Jewish population, which the German occupation authorities subsequently used to organise the systematic deportation of Jews from the Netherlands to transit camps such as Westerbork and onward to the extermination camps from 1942. Of the roughly 140,000 people registered under this ordinance, the great majority did not survive the war, making these forms a documented instrument in the administrative machinery of the Holocaust in the Netherlands.