ERR, Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft, Dienststelle Mühlmann: Sources for Provenance Research in the Archives of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Description

The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam is a national and international center for interdisciplinary research into the history of world wars, mass violence, and genocides. Founded in May 1945 with the goal of documenting the events of the Second World War in The Netherlands, it has since then collected, preserved and made accessible extensive personal and administrative accounts that map the German occupation in The Netherlands.

In this presentation, Leah Niederhausen, researcher at the NIOD’s Expert Centre Restitution, will give an overview of those sources in the archives of the NIOD that are of particular interest for (inter)national provenance researchers. This includes archival sources from the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) - specifically of the Möbelaktion in the Netherlands - , the Omnia-Treuhandgesellschaft and the Dienststelle Mühlmann. All
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Period10 Sept 2024
Event titleLooted / Beroofd
Event typeConference
Degree of RecognitionInternational