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| | [[Anne Frank]] was a famous Jewish girl who hid from Nazis in the house of friends in Amsterdam. She wrote a diary which was later published and became a best seller. Her family left Germany in 1933 because of the Nazis, but the Nazis caught up with her and sent her to Belsen death camp where she died before end of war in 1945. Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam is now a popular tourist attraction. | | [[Anne Frank]] was a famous Jewish girl who hid from Nazis in the house of friends in Amsterdam. She wrote a diary which was later published and became a best seller. Her family left Germany in 1933 because of the Nazis, but the Nazis caught up with her and sent her to Belsen death camp where she died before end of war in 1945. Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam is now a popular tourist attraction. |
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| − | ==The Netherlands in the [[Holocaust]]== | + | ==The Netherlands in the Holocaust== |
| − | is widely documented that approximately 75% of Dutch Jews perished during the Holocaust. While the Dutch government and much of the public initially opposed the Nazi occupation, the Dutch police and civil service eventually collaborated with the German occupying forces' persecution of Jews. | + | The Netherlands in the [[Holocaust]] is widely documented that approximately 75% of Dutch Jews perished during the Holocaust. While the Dutch government and much of the public initially opposed the Nazi occupation, the Dutch police and civil service eventually collaborated with the German occupying forces' persecution of Jews. |
| | A significant act of resistance was the February Strike of 1941 in Amsterdam, organized by the Communist Party in protest of the first mass arrests and deportation of Jews to concentration camps. The strike was violently suppressed by the Nazis, who subsequently imposed stricter measures and replaced Dutch officials in key positions to solidify their control and ensure the efficient implementation of anti-Jewish policies. | | A significant act of resistance was the February Strike of 1941 in Amsterdam, organized by the Communist Party in protest of the first mass arrests and deportation of Jews to concentration camps. The strike was violently suppressed by the Nazis, who subsequently imposed stricter measures and replaced Dutch officials in key positions to solidify their control and ensure the efficient implementation of anti-Jewish policies. |
| | Factors contributing to the high death toll in the Netherlands include: | | Factors contributing to the high death toll in the Netherlands include: |
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| | Amid rising antisemitism around the world and 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Simon Schama traces the historical road of horror that culminated in the death camps. From Lithuania to Poland, the Netherlands and, finally, Auschwitz, Schama confronts the enormity of the Holocaust as both historian and 80-year-old Jew, to understand how it happened and in the hopes of never again.</small></blockquote></ref> | | Amid rising antisemitism around the world and 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Simon Schama traces the historical road of horror that culminated in the death camps. From Lithuania to Poland, the Netherlands and, finally, Auschwitz, Schama confronts the enormity of the Holocaust as both historian and 80-year-old Jew, to understand how it happened and in the hopes of never again.</small></blockquote></ref> |
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| | + | The Dutch Queen's consort Bertrand, who married Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in 1937, was a [[Nazi Party]] member.<ref>https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/10/04/huisarchivaris-van-de-oranjes-voor-mij-is-wilhelmina-door-de-mand-gevallen-door-hoe-ze-haar-hofhouding-behandelde-a4176195</ref> |
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| | ==[[Amsterdam Pogrom by Arab Muslims (2024)]]== | | ==[[Amsterdam Pogrom by Arab Muslims (2024)]]== |