another 123 half-Jews and 61 quarter-Jews were counted in December 1941. During the period 1940 - 1945, a total number of 936 Jews had lived at one moment in Eindhoven. 332 (35%) were murdered in the extermination- and concentration camps in Central Europe (notably Auschwitz and Sobibor). 180 Jews were murdered in Auschwitz; 61 in Sobibor. The remaining 91 Jews died in Central Europe or have an unknown place of death. 63 Jews who were deported survived the camps, a "high" number when you consider that this number meant that some 16% of deported Jews from Eindhoven survived death camps like Auschwitz, whereas nationwide this number was closer to 5% of all deported Jews. 455 Jews managed to survive by hiding or leaving the country. 65 Jews were part of a mixed marriage (with a non-Jew) and by that escaped deportation and death. Another 21 Jews died of natural causes between 1940 and 1945. Central Registration Office for Jews After the liberation of the southern parts of the Netherlands in the autumn of 1944, the Central Registration Office for Jews was founded in the city of Maastricht. Under the auspices of the Red Cross, Dutch Jews who had survived the war were registered at the Bureau. It was useful for surviving Jews in finding their loved ones and Jewish friends, to see whether they were still alive and could be reached. At the end of 1944, the Bureau was moved to Eindhoven. In May 1945, some 2,500 Jews had been registered. This number grew to 21,674 in December 1945. Intermediate Station for Surviving Jews Eindhoven, which was the temporary capital of the liberated Netherlands, served as an intermediate station for hidden Jews and fled Jews who returned to the southern part of the Netherlands after that region had been liberated in September 1944. Shelters were founded in several places in Eindhoven. When the first camp survivors arrived from Germany, many Jews who had survived the Second World War through hiding or fleeing the country were faced with the cruel reality that most of their deported family members and loved ones would not return. Any hope of seeing them back was shattered when survivors of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp arrived at Eindhoven Airport in April 1945, and reported that the vast majority of Dutch Jews had been murdered in the camps. Jewish Orphans Many Jewish children survived in the Netherlands