Sources Consulted

Visitors to this website might find it of interest to see what sources I have used in my own research on the evasion of Tom Applewhite, the aid given by my great uncle to persons hiding from the Nazis, the operations of the Smit-van der Heijden Line, etc.  Those that came to mind are listed as follows and may not include every possible source that I actually used.

Belgium

• Belgian Sûreté, Brussels
• CEGES-SOMA (Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society)  (WWII archives)
• Defense, General Intelligence and Security Service, Security Division, Section Archives, Brussels (Source for military service records)
• Directorate-General War Victims (formerly Service for Victims of the War), Brussels
• Jewish Museum, Brussels
• Mechelen Museum for Deportation & Resistance, Mechelen
• Musée National de la Résistance, Brussels
• SNCB (Belgian Railway) Archives and Photothèque, Brussels

France

• Institut d’histoire du temps present, Paris

Germany

• Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv, Potsdam, Germany
• German War Graves Commission, Kassel
• International Tracing Service
• Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum, Schloss Rheinsberg, Germany

Gibraltar

• Gibraltar Archives

Israel

• Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Netherlands

• Amalia van Solms Historical Society, Baarle-Nassau
• Bibliothecaris Regionaal Archief Leiden
• Dutch Ministry of Defense
• Esbeek Work Group
• Gemeentearchief Enschede
• Gemeentearchief Rotterdam
• International Institute for Social History
• Jonkers, David, personal papers
• Leiden University Library
• Marechaussee Museum, Buren, The Netherlands
• Nationaal Archief, The Hague
• Netherlands Red Cross Archives (Het Nederlandse Rode Kruis)
• Netherlands Institute for Military History, The Hague
• Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum
• Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), Amsterdam
• Nijmegen Regionaal Archief
• Stichting 1940-45, Amsterdam
• Tilburg Regionaal Archief
• University of Utrecht Medical Library
• Verzetsmuseum (Resistance Museum), Amsterdam

Norway

• Bergen Maritime Museum, Bergen
• Haugesund, Norway Folkebibliotek, Haugesund
• National Archives of Norway, Oslo

Spain

• Seville Port Authority, Seville

United Kingdom

• Cambridge University Library, Cambridge
• Guildhall Library, London
• Imperial War Museum, London
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Records & Historical Dept., London

United States

• Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA), Maxwell AFB, Texas
• Basque Studies Library, University of Nevada at Reno
• Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, Savannah, Georgia
• National Archives II (NARA), College Park, Maryland
• Steinway Archive, New York
• U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, PA