Ordedienst （OD）： One of the biggest resistance groups in the Netherlands prior to the LO. It was founded in 1940 with the aim of filling the power vacuum that the Germans would leave behind after their departure. During the war, the OD was involved in sabotage and providing intelligence to the Allies.
Het Parool （The Password or The Motto）： One of the most famous resistance newspapers in the Netherlands. What started as a short newsletter developed into a real newspaper in February 1941. During the war, about ninety people working for the newspaper were arrested and murdered. Het Parool still exists and is a Social Democratic newspaper in the Amsterdam region.
Pectacon: Otto Frank’s company, established in June 1938 to sell ground meat, herbs, and spices. Hermann van Pels worked for Pectacon.
Persoonsbewijs （PB）： An identity card that, from April 1941, all Dutch citizens aged fifteen and older were required to carry. It was introduced by order of the Germans and turned out to be a great help in the persecution of Jews and resistance fighters. The identity card of Jews was printed with a large black J. People with a Sperre had a Sperre stamp on their identity cards.
Politieke Opsporingsdienst （POD） （Political Investigation Service）： A police branch dedicated to tracing and arresting people suspected of collaboration and war crimes. The POD was started in February 1945 and fell under the military authority that was in power directly after the war.
Politieke Recherche Afdeling （PRA） （Political Investigation Department）： The new name of the POD from March 1946 after the military authority handed over power to the civil administration and political order was restored. It was under the Ministry of Justice.
Pulsen （pulses）： The nickname for the emptying of houses of Jews in Amsterdam who were deported, after the Abraham Puls moving company, which would come within a few days to empty the homes. Abraham Puls was a Dutch NSB member.
Radio Oranje （Radio Orange）： The name of a fifteen-minute radio program that was broadcast every evening at 20:15 by BBC European Service. It was organized by the Dutch government in exile in London. The first broadcast took place on July 28, 1940. Many people in the Netherlands had access to an illegal radio set and would secretly listen to the program.
Ravensbrück concentration camp: A concentration camp predominantly for women, about fifty miles north of Berlin. From its opening in 1939 until liberation, approximately thirty thousand people died there.
Razzia （pl. Razzias）： A large-scale Nazi hunt for a certain group of people （Jews, resistance fighters, people who were dodging mandatory labor duty）。 Razzias were held throughout the Third Reich.
Referat IV B4 （section）： The section within the Sicherheidsdienst （SD） charged with Jewish affairs. Under Adolf Eichmann, it was the organization responsible for the deportation of Jews to the extermination camps. It was referred to colloquially as the Jew-hunting unit.
Reichskommissar für die besetzten niederl?ndischen Gebiete: Civilian Reich Commissioner for the Netherlands Arthur Seyss-Inquart.
Residents Project: An investigative initiative by the Cold Case Team in which all homes surrounding the Annex were researched to determine who lived where and what could be discovered about their history, political orientation, criminal records, and other information.
Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie （RIOD）： Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation; now called the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Sachsenhausen concentration camp: A concentration camp situated twenty-five miles north of Berlin. It was a relatively large camp that, from its start in 1936 until liberation, housed over two hundred thousand prisoners, of whom approximately fifty thousand died. The conditions in Sachsenhausen were barbaric, and prisoners were shot or hanged on a daily basis.
Schutzstaffel （SS）： Originally a paramilitary organization, founded in 1925, that acted as Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard. The group grew into what the Nazis saw as an elite unit, led by Heinrich Himmler, and was divided into the regular SS and the Waffen-SS. It was the most powerful organization in the Nazi state and was predominantly responsible for the execution of the Holocaust.
Sicherheitsdienst （SD） （Security Service）： The intelligence service of the German state, which also provided support to the Gestapo and cooperated with the Administration of the Interior. It was under the SS and was led by Reinhard Heydrich. The SD was tasked with observing and prosecuting political opponents of the Third Reich, including the Jews.
Sicherheitspolizei （SiPo）： The German security police.
Signalementenblad: A magazine published beginning in October 1943 by the Ordedienst （OD） resistance movement. It contained the names, descriptions, and photos of more than seventy traitors and collaborators. It was printed for resistance workers so that they could identify hostiles.