![]() He introduced the Dutch term for the cards, persoonsbewijs ('PB'), and became obsessed with developing a technically advanced identity card. The man behind these documents was Jacob Lentz (1894-1963), a Dutch official at the Ministry of the Interior. The cards for Jews had a black capital letter 'J' on both sides, which made them easy to recognize. ![]() From 1941 onwards, all Dutch nationals aged 15 and older, both Jews and non-Jews, were required to carry identity cards. After the German invasion in 1940, this situation changed dramatically. ![]() In the years before the war, you could freely choose whether to apply for a passport or other identity papers and carry them with you. The identity card: a bureaucratic instrument An impressive installation by the visual artist Robert Glas shows how ingenious Lentz's creation was. The exhibition Identity Cards and Forgeries: Jacob Lentz | Alice Cohn explores how each of them was connected to these documents. Jacob Lentz was the inventor of the identity cards, and Alice Cohn was a Jewish woman who forged them. These identity cards were introduced in the Netherlands at the start of the Second World War. Starting on 30 October 2017, the National Holocaust Museum (currently in the process of development) will present the stories of two people who were closely involved with wartime identity cards.
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