Culture Minister Gouke Moes: ‘Important to offer close to home’
In the course of 2026, the Central Archive for Special Criminal Justice (CABR) will also be available for consultation in regional archives. RTV Utrecht reports on this.
RTV Utrecht:
Until now, interested parties could only view the archive in The Hague on specially secured computers. People must submit a request in advance and indicate why they want to conduct research. Interest is high: there are long waiting lists.
This is set to change from the beginning of February. Eleven regional archives throughout the country, including the Utrecht Archives, will then have extra secure computer stations where people can consult the digital war archives. Each location will have two workstations.
‘Given the advanced age of many interested parties, it is important to offer this opportunity close to home,’ says Culture Minister Gouke Moes.
Read the report. (Dutch only.)
War in Court
The Central Archive for Special Criminal Justice (CABR) contains files on more than 425,000 people who were investigated after the Second World War for alleged collaboration with the German occupiers. The CABR is the largest war archive in the Netherlands, with an estimated 30 million pages.
The Huygens Institute is responsible for the technology that makes the CABR archive accessible and searchable. This includes text recognition, document classification and document separation.
