Are there any Dutch Jews? After German Occupation, what happened to the Jews in Holland?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In The Hiding Place<\/em>, Corrie ten Boom sees the persecution of her Jewish neighbors and can’t stand by. Read more about how life changed for Dutch Jews during WW2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n More disturbing than the rationing, curfews, identity cards, or confiscation of radios, however, were the measures that the German occupiers began to take against Dutch Jews. For years, Corrie\u2019s brother Willem had warned his family about the violent antisemitic ideology of Nazi Germany. Now it was happening on Dutch soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Jewish community of Haarlem began to face harsh discrimination<\/strong>. They were barred from entering restaurants, cafes, and parks, to Corrie\u2019s horror and dismay. The anti-Jewish measures soon took on a violent character\u2014Jewish cemeteries and synagogues were looted and vandalized, with the perpetrators desecrating holy religious texts and painting swastikas on the walls and doors of Jewish houses of worship. Later, Dutch Jews (like Jewish people all over Europe) were marked out from the rest of the community by the infamous decree ordering them to wear yellow stars stitched to their clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The introduction of the yellow star and the campaign of antisemitic persecution revealed to Corrie neighbors whom she hadn\u2019t known were Jewish. One of them was a man she and her sisters had known only as \u201cBulldog,\u201d so named because he was always to be seen walking his beloved bulldogs through the streets of Haarlem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the most shocking aspects of the antisemitic campaign was how eagerly many ordinary Dutch people gleefully participated in it.<\/strong> The Netherlands had its own version of the German Hitler Youth, called the NSB. These were local Nazi sympathizers and collaborators, who espoused a hateful antisemitic ideology that found expression in terrorizing and harassing their Jewish neighbors. Corrie was aghast to discover that people whom she had known and seen in Haarlem in ordinary times were now enthusiastic participants in the gathering storm of hate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By 1941, Dutch Jews began simply disappearing off the streets<\/strong>. There were awful scenes being played out on the streets of Haarlem, as Corrie saw the Dutch Jews that were her neighbors and acquaintances (many of whom she hadn\u2019t even known <\/em>were Jewish) being subjected to harsh interrogations, raids, and mass arrests. In the watch shop, the disappearances left behind a more subtle, yet sinister trace\u2014repaired watches left on the hooks, never picked up by their owners. As Dutch Jews were hauled off the streets, no one could truly guess where the Germans were taking them. Awful rumors began to circulate about Jews in Holland being deported en masse<\/em> to camps in Eastern Europe where they would be worked to death or even killed outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Shortform note: Under the German Nuremberg Laws, which were later extended to the countries occupied by the Nazis, anyone who could be proven to have at least three Jewish grandparents was considered to be Jewish, regardless of what religion they practiced. Converting to Christianity would not save one from this new, racial form of antisemitism.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are there any Dutch Jews? After German Occupation, what happened to the Jews in Holland? In The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom sees the persecution of her Jewish neighbors and can’t stand by. Read more about how life changed for Dutch Jews during WW2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,24],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-13471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-society","tag-the-hiding-place","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"\nChanges for Jews in Holland<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Corrie Shocked by Treatment of Dutch Jews<\/h3>\n\n\n\n