[Handwritten annotations at top:]
4 Kisten } u. zwar 6963. 6964. 6965. 0066.
5 Koffer } J.O. 1. 10. 12. 14. 15
No. 621
RECEIVED $66.43 {125.14}
EMPFANGEN 0.10 zegel [stamp tax]
from Mr. A. Baer
von
Passenger per S.S. ________
Passagier per Dampfer
Date _______ 19__ Classe
Abfahrt Klasse
for Excess baggage according to the respective Clause of the Passenger ticket.
für Gepäcküberfracht gemäss der betreffenden Klausel der Fahrkarte.
Baggage weighing 949 K.G. minus ___ K.G. = 949 K.G.
Gepäck wiegt
to be paid for at $7.- per 100 K.G.
zu bezahlen mit
ROTTERDAM, April 4th 1940
HOLLAND AMERICA LINE
per _______ [10 cent Dutch fiscal stamp affixed]
728 P. - 10 A. 50 bl68. I-40. Receipt
Holland America Line excess baggage receipt (No. 621), bilingual (English/Ger...
This bilingual Dutch/English receipt from the Holland America Line documents the shipment of the Oppenheimers' belongings from Rotterdam. Arthur Baer paid $66.43 (125.14 Dutch guilders) for 949 kilograms of excess baggage — nearly a metric ton of household goods — at a rate of $7 per 100 kg. The handwritten annotations at the top inventory the shipment: 4 crates (numbered 6963, 6964, 6965, 0066) and 5 suitcases (J.O. 1, 10, 12, 14, 15), matching the inventory in Arthur Baer's letter (0012). The receipt is dated April 4, 1940 — just five weeks before the German Wehrmacht invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, after which Rotterdam was devastated by bombing and the Holland America Line's passenger service was suspended. This receipt represents one of the last shipments to leave Rotterdam before the port was destroyed. The 10-cent Dutch fiscal stamp (zegel) affixed to the receipt was standard for commercial transactions in the Netherlands.