Family Home: Alien Cards and War Lives
The video will go on November 5 at 15:00 Alien Cards and War Lives premiered on our Youtube channel. During the premiere you can chat with Nelleke van Zeeland, project leader at Amsterdam City Archives. Take a look too!
Since 2020, the many dozens of foreigner cards in our collection have been made digitally accessible with the help of VeleHanden. It concerns the data of some 230,000 migrants, from the period 1920-1970. In this video, project leader Nelleke van Zeeland tells who these people were who sometimes even stayed in the city for work, but also became citizens of Amsterdam for good events in the city.
In the second part of the film, Lizzy Jongma and Janneke Jorna of Network War Sources and the NIOD talk about what you learn when we link the data on the alien maps to other sources. For example, the maps that have a relationship with the Second World War are linked to the sources on Krijglevens.nl. This produces very rich stories.
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Family Home
This fifth video is part of ‘Famillement Thuis’, the digital version of the well-known biennial event, organized by CBG|Centre for Family History and Amsterdam City Archives. Watch the previous videos on us Youtube Channel.
Opening image video: Alien Map by Audrey Kathleen Ruston, better known as Audrey Hepburn.
Header image: Cook in the kitchen in the former headquarters of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd, Oostelijke Handelskade 12, from 23/24 August 1939 to 23 July 1940 in use as ‘Refugee Camp Lloyd Hotel’ for Jewish refugees from Germany. Photo taken by Jules Loszynski (1909-1944), circa 1940. Amsterdam City Archives Collection