Prayer cards Roerstreek
 The data of the prayer cards of the local society of the Roerstreek have been added to Open Archives.
The more than 236 thousaned prayer card contain information on over 505 thousand persons.
Missing personal lists from the Dutch Government Gazette
 After the war there were tens of thousands of (especially Jewish) Dutch people who were not officially determined that they had died. This involved all kinds of legal complications, such as inheritance issues. In order to solve these problems, in June 1949 the 'Act, containing provisions concerning the preparation of deeds of death of missing persons' came into force. This law stipulated that the Minister of Justice could have a death certificate drawn up at the registry office. The ministry had to arrange for registration and investigation of the missing persons. That research had to minimize the chance that the missing persons would later turn up with all the complications of that. The results of that research were published in the Dutch Government Gazette published by the Royal Library via Delpher.nl.
In the previous newsletter there was a call to help to check and supplement the details of these missing lists from the Government Gazette. Many Open Archives users have contributed, so this job is already done! The data of almost 64 thousand missing persons are now searchable on Open Archives, of course the link to the source (scan of the Government Gazette) is also shown.
Links to the Jewish Monument
Open Archives adds links to additional sources to the displayed data. These may be other records on Open Archives that mention the same persons, but external sources are also mentioned. If the person named on the deed appears on the website of the War Graves Foundation, the Dutch Biographical Portal, Graftombe, Online Cemeteries or Genealogy Online, links will be shown to these websites so that you can find additional information there.
A new website has now been added to this collection of valuable external sources: the Jewish Monument. The Jewish Monument is an online monument for the more than 104 thousand people who were persecuted in the Netherlands as Jews and did not survive the Holocaust. Initiator Isaac Lipschits wanted to take the victims out of anonymity, by bringing each of them into the picture, with everything that is known about them.
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