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Introduction This dataset collection is created within the context of the digitisation project ‘First-Hand Accounts of War: War Letters (1935-1950) from NIOD Digitised’, that ran over a period of three years (2020-2023) and was funded by the Mondriaan Fund, the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport, and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. The aim of the project was to preserve, digitize, and transcribe the NIOD’s war letters collection and to enhance access to these historical records in various ways. Creator The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies was founded in 1945. The NIOD is a national and international archival institution and research institute. The NIOD-researchers conduct interdisciplinary academic research into the history of wars, mass violence and genocides. The institute holds over 400 archives and collections (2500 meters) about various topics related to World War II and mass violence in the 20th century. War letters The project ‘First-Hand Accounts of War: War Letters (1935-1950) from NIOD Digitised’ digitised NIOD’s paper archival letter collection, also known as ‘247 Collectie Correspondentie’. The collection contains personal correspondence written and received in the context of the German Occupation of the Netherlands (1940-1945) and the War of Independence in Indonesia (in the late 1940s). Many people have been donating personal correspondence to NIOD since 1945 and new documents are acquired on a regular basis. The vast majority of the letters are written in Dutch and originate from the period 1935-1950. The archival collection ‘247 Collectie Correspondentie’ currently measures 14,1 meters and is divided into different inventory numbers. The collection entails a wide variety of different kinds of personal correspondence from various letter-writers. Contents The dataset ‘First-Hand Accounts of War: War Letters (1935-1950) from NIOD Digitised’ contains machine-readable data...