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TitleLearning from eyewitnesses: examining the history and future of personal encounters with Holocaust survivors and resistance fighters

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Dienke Hondius

Call number940.5318/0451

Object number04790d

Place of publicationHeidelberg, Germany

PublisherSpringer

Year of publication

2015

Physical descriptionpp81-94

MaterialArticle

ISBN9783319154183

NotesArticle from the book 'As the witnesses fall silent' pp81-94

Description

Uses eyewitness testimony to bring WWII and the Holocaust in the Netherlands into sharp focus. Holland lost 75% of its Jews followed by a post-war wave of antisemitism and by a general avoidance of discussions about this national calamity. Public discussion was restricted to the war and victimisation of Dutch citizens. Change came slowly and only in the 1970s did the Holocaust begin to merit more attention. Emphasis shifted to witnesses experiences and by the 1990s an awareness that the Dutch could have done more to save the Jews converges with NATO's failure to intervene in Srebenica. Combined with increased understanding of Dutch conduct in Indonesia, the self-image of the nation suffered. Hondius attests to the trend of demystification as the first generation grow up hearing about the Holocaust from a young age confronts their parents and grandparents as they look to revise the Dutch historical narrative to incorporate individual acts of heroism and collective crimes towards the Jews in wartime Holland.

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