Amsterdam property-sale records

The National Archives’ published Verkaufsbücher index contains 1,779 rows for Amsterdam. The books recorded sales of property taken from Jewish owners during the occupation. Each row may cover more than one property. The surviving books are incomplete, and an index entry alone doesn’t establish a completed transfer.

A ledger links Nieuwe Kerkstraat 6 and Amstel 81

Entries 1688 and 1689 name I. Hartog at Zuider Amstellaan 61 and S. Vlaming at Vondelstraat 104b. The Amstel entry says “Siehe Verkauf 1688,” meaning “See sale 1688.” Their accounts must therefore be read together. These are recorded names and addresses; they haven’t been matched to full personal histories.

The entries below were read on the original page images. The contract-date column sometimes contains both an ink date and a pencil date. Both are retained here. Postwar ownership and restitution remain unverified.

Numbers 32–34 in 1959

The city archive dates this photograph to October 8, 1959 and identifies the fronts as Nieuwe Kerkstraat 32–34, from right to left, with further houses beyond. Number 34 is visible beside an entrance. The photograph records the later appearance of the street; it doesn’t identify its owners or establish that the fronts were unchanged since the occupation.

Postwar files to follow

Three NBI catalogue entries match names recorded in the street’s sales index. Each sits inside a folder filed under another name. The catalogue gives us a route to the records; the files haven’t yet been read, so their connection to these properties and any restitution outcome remain unverified. On September 5, 2026, the three containing folders were listed as physical records and their online viewers returned no scans.

Search the published index

Names, addresses and prices below come from the published index. “Page read” links to the four entries inspected above; other rows remain leads. The search includes recorded owners and buyers. It doesn’t identify residents as owners. Searching Nieuwe Herengracht also finds the source spelling Nieuwe Heerengracht.

The selection contains 92 rows for Nieuwe Kerkstraat and other named streets, including the Amstel, Nieuwe Achtergracht and Plantage streets. Whole-street matches extend beyond the immediate neighborhood. It isn’t a complete neighborhood inventory. Different spellings, ownership addresses, household looting and properties absent from the surviving sales books need separate searches.