• saving numerous lives. At the time, the Dutch identity card system (persoonsbewijs [nl]) was very sophisticated. When the Nazis took over, they would also...
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  • The two sides of a World War II 'Ausweis' or 'Persoonsbewijs' (identification) of Carola Maria Schunk...
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    to carry an identification card, the persoonsbewijs, with them at all times. Jews had to carry a persoonsbewijs marked with a large J. Resistance members...
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    to carry an identification card, the persoonsbewijs, with them at all times. Jews had to carry a persoonsbewijs marked with a large J. Resistance members...
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  • kinship, and is thus a colonial novel as well. In her autobiography Persoonsbewijs (Identity Card; 1967), Haasse described Oeroeg as "the dark side of...
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  • Jewish residents, a large letter J. Despite the belief that Lentz' persoonsbewijs (PB), as he named them, would be impossible to forge, Cohn was able...
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