List of approximately 2,000 unpaid life insurance policies [Netherlands]. [Internet resource] (ID: 33245)
Authorship or Source:
Stichting Individuele Verzekeringsafspraken Sjoa (Holocaust Foundation for Individual Insurance Claims)
Year:
2004
Title or Main Description:
List of approximately 2,000 unpaid life insurance policies [Netherlands]. [Internet resource]
Place Published or Holding Institution:
[The Hague, Netherlands]
Description:
Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 2000 Names.
Edition:
Revised December 2004
Type of Work:
HTML document
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
Survivors Registry Collection [photocopy]: Document File EE3654.
Provenance:
- "The list of unclaimed insurance policies is the result of investigation into the archives of insurers. As was established in the report of the Scholten Committee, a systematic process of restitution of policies of Jews persecuted during the Second World War took place after the war. The majority of these insurance policies was settled in this way up to approximately 1955. Insurance policies for which no claimants came forward were transferred to the Dutch Government around 1955, as 'unclaimed estates'. There were also insurance policies that did not get confiscated by the robbery bank Liro, and as a result, these remained partially outside the systematic restitution process. The current list concerns these categories."
- Published online by the Stichting Sjoa - Sjoa Foundation (Contact: Bordewijklaan 4, Den Haag, Nederland, Postbus 91475, 2509 EB Den Haag, Netherlands; Fax: 070 - 333 88 46; Email: info@stichting-sjoa.nl).
Keywords:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Netherlands.
- Jews --Netherlands --Registers.
- Insurance claims --Netherlands --Sources.
- Confiscations --Netherlands --Sources.
- Jewish property --Netherlands --Registers.
- Jews --Claims --Netherlands --Sources.
- Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) --Netherlands --Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Confiscations and contributions --Netherlands --Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Reparations --Netherlands --Sources.
- Scholten Committee (Nethlands). --Sources
- "Luka" (Stenszewski, Luise Marte Renate, 1928-1943) --Sources.
Abstract:
- "Amended list of names : As of the end of December 2004, the existing Internet list of non-distributed assets from Jewish insurance policies has been replaced by a new list. Approximately 1,350 new names have been added. The names, addresses and dates that were already on the previous list have been improved and made more complete. Married women are listed under both their husband's name and their maiden name. The names of those persons to whom the insurance benefits have been paid out in full by our foundation have been removed from the list. Investigations carried out during the last few years have revealed that in some cases, names had been placed on the list of non-distributed insurance claims unjustly, since further investigation showed that the benefits had been paid out after all. These names have also been removed from the list. This reservation must be made for the new list as well; it is not absolutely certain that these policies have never been restored and/or paid out."
- Entries include name, street address, city, date of birth and date of decease.
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in Dutch or English.
- Cataloger-assigned title.
- Name list is displayed within a browser window under the "Policies" link (or the "Polissen" link in the Dutch version).
- Last Accessed: 19 May 2006.
Location of Electronic or Internet File:
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Survivors Registry Document File EE3654 contains: a full-page printout of the English language table of unclaimed policies located at http://www.stichting-sjoa.nl/engPolicies.html (normally displayed in smaller browser window under the "Policies" link), a screenshot of the website's welcome page at http://www.stichting-sjoa.nl/ (to choose the Nederlands [=Dutch] or English version), and the text of an email written by William Connelly of the Survivors Registry staff on April 15, 2005 regarding research that indicates that the character "Luka" in the book and film "Escape from Sobibor" is possibly based on the actual person of Luise Marte Renate Stenszewski, born April 14, 1928 in Berlin, who is among those found in this list of unclaimed insurance policies.