The NIOD (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies) has a very extensive collection of brochures, for the greater part donated by private persons. Approximately 1500 of these brochures, related to the Netherlands and the former Netherlands East Indies during and immediately after World War II, were selected for The Memory. These are not underground brochures published during the occupation, but legal publications.

The subjects of the brochures are highly diverse: some are politically neutral, others have a propaganda bias: they range from appeals to collect old newspapers, to an appeal to ‘fight the barbarians with the Bible and by the sword’. Among the postwar brochures there is an especially large number of publications dealing with the liberation, memorials in remembrance of the dead, and personal accounts of people returning from the concentration camps.