Collection of the Protestantsch Hulp Comité voor Uitgewekenen om Ras en Geloof (Protestant Help Committee to Refugees of Race or Religion) in the Netherlands, 1939-1940

Collection of the Protestantsch Hulp Comité voor Uitgewekenen om Ras en Geloof (Protestant Help Committee to Refugees of Race or Religion) in the Netherlands, 1939-1940
 
 The aim of the Protestant Committee was to give help to Jewish or "partially" Jewish refugees who had been baptized to Christianity, or "Aryans" who were married to Jews;
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Circulars, notes and correspondence related to the Protestant Help Committee in Amsterdam, 1940;
 
 Correspondence between the committee's chairman Professor V. H. Rutgers and various organizations and persons, including the Centrale Commissie voor het Vrijzinnig Protestantisme in Utrecht, Priest Grueber in Berlin, the Dutch Minister of the Interior, and the Comite voor bijzondere Joodsche Belangen (Committee for Special Jewish Interests);
 
 Correspondence conducted between committee chairman Professor V. H. Rutgers and various organizations and persons, including the Friends Association (Quakers), the Netherlands branch of the Wereldbond der Kerken (World Association of Churches), the Nederlandsche Christen-Studenten Vereeniging (Netherlands Association of Protestant Students), Priest Grueber in Berlin, Mrs. Dina Kohnstamm, the Gereformeerde Kerken - Mission to Jews Movement in the Netherlands, the Algemeene Commissie voor Buitenlandsche Nooden (General Committee for People in Distress outside the Netherlands), and the Vereeniging tot Vakopleiding van Palestina-Pioniers (Association for the Training of Pioneers in Eretz Israel) in Amsterdam;
 
 Report prepared by Professor Rutgers regarding a meeting of the committee's Rotterdam branch, whose participants included among others Professor David Cohen, Dr. H. K. Cohen, Dr. Mrs. S. S. Cohen and Dr. M. Herzberger of the Jewish Committee, and H. J. Kuiper on behalf of the Catholics;
 
 Correspondence regarding in main the refugee camp for Protestants in Sluis, between committee chairman Professor V. H. Rutgers and various organizations and persons, including Priest Grueber from Berlin, Het Kindercomite (The Institute for Children), and the Comite voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen (Committee for Special Jewish Interests);
 
 Accounts, notes and correspondence of the Protestantsch Hulp Comité voor Uitgewekenen om Ras en Geloof (Protestant Help Committee to Refugees of Race or Religion) in Amsterdam, 1938-1940;
 
 Appeals to the committees by committee chairman Professor V. H. Rutgers, requesting donations for the committee's activities, and replies to these requests, most of which in the negative;
 
 Correspondence between committee chairman Professor V. H. Rutgers and various organizations and persons, including Priest Grueber in Berlin, the Young Men's Christian Association - YMCA in Jerusalem, Dr. Ruhemann [who wrote] during his stay in Jerusalem, and the Algemeene Commissie voor Buitenlandsche Nooden (General Committee for People in Distress outside the Netherlands).