Abbreviation for the Dutch ‘Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten’. It was officially known as the Dutch Internal Army and by 5 September 1944 was made up of different resistance groups.

 This was a Dutch fascist organization which was active from 1934 to 1941.

regulations: Regulations introduced from May 1940 by the German occupier in order to deprive Jews of their rights and possessions.

Hatred of Jews.

German for labour input. In May 1943 Dutch men between the ages of 18 and 35 had to register for forced labour in Germany, mostly in the war industry.

Hitler and his followers thought in terms of ‘races’. According to them the ‘Aryan’ race was superior. Real Germans belonged to this ‘race’.

From October 1940 all civil servants had to sign this declaration which enabled the German occupier to establish who was Jewish and who was not. 

German for identity papers.

During the war betrayers were those who told the German police where they could find resistance members or people in hiding. The betrayal of one Jew was rewarded with what was a quarter of a weekly wage for a carpenter.

To prevent allied bombers from easily finding their targets windows had to be blacked out so that no lights could be seen.