Dutch government: discriminating against the survivors through a so-called egalitarian approach
TitleThe Dutch government: discriminating against the survivors through a so-called egalitarian approach
Author
Call number305.8924/0060
Object number04156k
Place of publicationJerusalem
PublisherJerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Year of publication
2003
Physical descriptionpp180-187
MaterialArticle
ISBN9652180459
NotesArticles from the book 'Europe's Crumbling Myths' pp180-187
Description
Of 140,000 Jews living in the Netherlands before World War II, an estimated 105,000 were killed by the Nazis. During the war, the Dutch Government in Exile based in London was indifferent to the Jews' fate. The postwar Dutch government dragged its feet on the reparations issue, actually favouring non-Jewish Nazi collaborators over Jews. It also dodged responsibility for Dutch Jews' wartime fate, using Anne Frank as a "figleaf" to cover its inhumanity.