13 February 1941
  until
29 September 1943:
At the insistence of the occupying German forces, a Jewish Council (Joodsche Raad) was set up in Amsterdam to act as liaison with the German authorities. This particular office (19 Jan van Eijckstraat) was the deportation bureau. They handled requests for travel and emigration (but the Germans always refused such requests), exemptions from deportations, and had some role in issuing the deportation lists (which came from the Zentralstelle).
    One request for emigration, on 20 January 1942, was made by Otto Frank for his family. The papers can be seen in the Critical Edition (1986), page 17. It does not appear that he made an application for Grandmother Holländer, who had cancer. (She died nine days later.)
    Tonny Ahlers, a possible betrayer of those in the secret annexe, infrequently acted as supervisor of this office. Reportedly, Max Stoppelman worked as a courier from this office (during the occupation, his textiles business was slow and difficult because he was Jewish).

teleport to Otto Frank's business

cross street to former Nazis' home