Persoonsbewijzencentrale
The Persoonsbewijzencentrale (PBC) was a Dutch resistance organization set up by Gerrit van der Veen during World War II . It published the underground newspaper Rattekruid (rat poison), produced around 80,000 ID cards as the largest counterfeiting ring in the Netherlands, supplied the resistance and people in hiding with forged or captured papers and carried out the attack on the Amsterdam residents' registration office in 1943 . During the attack on the state printing plant in The Hague, the group captured 10,000 blank ID cards.
The group consisted mostly of artists and Jews. Well-known members were Willem Arondeus , Karl Gröger , Frans Duwaer and Gerhard Badrian , who took over the management after the arrest of Van der Veen in May 1944.
Web links
- De aanslag op het Amsterdamse bevolkingsregister on Resistance Museum Amsterdam
literature
Ben Braber: This cannot happen here: integration and jewish resistance in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 . Amsterdam University Press 2013, ISBN 978-90-8964-583-8 , pp. 144 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ De aanslag op het Amsterdamse bevolkingsregister . Resistance Museum Amsterdam, accessed January 28, 2017
- ^ René van Heijningen: Gerhard Joseph Badrian . on NIOD, accessed January 28, 2017