Collection of J. G. Van Niftrik, an activist in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the transfer of intelligence and the smuggle of underground people and Jews from the Netherlands to England during 1942-1945

Collection of J. G. Van Niftrik, an activist in the Netherlands and Switzerland in the transfer of intelligence and the smuggle of underground people and Jews from the Netherlands to England during 1942-1945
 
 Van Niftrik was an activist in the Dutch underground who was forced to escape from the Germans; he arrived to Switzerland and established the Zwitserse Weg B, for the purpose of smuggling people in the underground to England and other destinations, and he helped Jews who escaped from the Netherlands to arrive to shelter in other countries; upon his return to the Netherlands after the war, he served in public positions;
 
 Included in the file:
 
 - List of approximately 100 people, including Jews, who were transferred to Spain on various routes in late 1942 and 1943;
 - Similar list of 84 people, who left the Netherlands between summer 1940 and 05/08/1942;
 - Photographs and certificates of various people;
 - Letter sent by the Dutch intelligence branch in Switzerland to the head office in the Netherlands, for the purpose of holding an investigation of Dutchmen who were transferred via Switzerland, upon their return to the Netherlands, 08/07/1945;
 - Letters from G. D. Wink to Van Niftrik, regarding art collections in Switzerland whose source was apparently in the Netherlands, 1945;
 - A substantial part of the file is dedicated to the purging of Dutch notaries who were bribed by collaborators with the Germans; the role of Van Niftrik on the subject is not evident from the documents, 1945;
 - Summary of briefs of events in the Netherlands during 1940-1945, page 8;
 - List of anti-Jewish laws that were legislated by the occupation authorities in the Netherlands during 1940-1943, page 28.