National Archive Warns of Errors in Collaboration List

The National Archive in The Hague warns of potential errors in the “collaboration list” released on Thursday. The archive states on its website that the index is based on the card system used for special jurisdiction cases, which includes cards of individuals who were neither suspects nor accused, yet ended up in the system.

This warning follows a publication by De Telegraaf, which reported that the list contains names of Jews persecuted by the Nazis during World War II. Historian Karin van Coeverden discovered that her father, uncle, and aunt were mistakenly listed as suspected collaborators.

Her aunt was murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp in 1943, while her father and uncle survived the war. Van Coeverden suggests her father may have been incorrectly registered as a suspect instead of a witness due to his post-war statement about Westerbork camp commander Konrad Gemmeker.

The National Archive acknowledges the error and urges those who notice inaccuracies to report them for correction. The archive published the register of 425,000 post-war suspected collaborators, noting that many accusations did not lead to convictions, often due to false charges.

Source: NOS

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