Attention family historians with an interest in the Netherlands….we are sharing an announcement from the Dutch Jewry web site regarding changes to its databases, web site, and activities.
In the summer of 2020, it states, the Dutch Jewish genealogy organization Amoetat Akevoth will cease its activities, its web site dutchjewry.org will close down, and its data will be transferred to archive.org.
dutchjewry.org had developed into the most comprehensive Dutch Jewish genealogical web site, and Amoetat Akevot had developed and maintained the Dutch Jewish Genealogical Data Base (DJGB).
The announcement says the Amoetat Akevoth board decided to close down after failing to find “motivated and suitable candidates to continue the development and maintenance” of the DJGB.
It said
In preparation for this drastic change, everything possible will be done to preserve our databases in a secure environment, maintaining accessibility for our public, with no meaningful changes in the existing interface and lay-out: though certain inevitable limitations will be forced upon us, they will be kept to a bare minimum.
The transfer of data to archive.org will take place in February and March.
After that
Search commands using familiar keywords like ‘Akevoth’ and ‘Dutch Jewry’ will also continue to find the www.dutchjewry.org
Contributors who do NOT want submissions they have made have until January 15 to contact Amoetat Akevoth at [email protected] or noach.
Meanwhile, the activities of the Stenen Archief (Stone Archive) project — the digitization project of the Ashkenazi cemeteries in the Netherlands — will continue unchanged, but management will be transferred to a new Dutch organization (which it did not name).
Click here to read the full announcement, with timeline and other information
2 comments on “Netherlands: Main Dutch Jewish genealogy organization & web site to close; databases to be transferred”
Dear Paul,
It is the first time I come across this website. As you may have gathered from previous announcements, our activities are closed and we are in the middle of the process of liquidating our organization.
So I cannot help you anymore with the Anne Frank question as our Help Desk has been closed on Jan 1st, 2020.
Our archives can be reached and used as before through the link dutchjewry.org
As to the Hollander name, in my opinion the Stadsarchief is correct. In Israel for instance the Hollander name is quite common, all related to Polish or other Eastern European ancestry with no connection to the Netherlands whatever.
Regards,
BEN
Shalom dear Mr. Noach,
Coming to you once agi,hoping you are in good health.
Am looking for tree and names of family of Anne Frank,especially the grandmother Rosa Stern- Holländer,who died in Amsterdam.
As I recently got the message that I am related to Anne as her 9th cousin…….
Thanks as always for your kind reply.
Furthermore the question of you have any data on the family name,some say Holländer is derived from the country Holland bu my source at the Stadsarchief Amsterdam says there is no proof for that.