Dutch treatment of Holocaust survivors
2023-12-26 17:22:01.48138+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
I had the history of the Dutch occupation during WWII reinforced while reading Mieke Eerkens' All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents
, but the depths of the factions, and which ended up where in the post-war government, is fascinating: Dutch News: Holocaust survivors were spied on as a “danger to democracy’
The Netherlands is still struggling to come to terms with the way it treated Jews who returned home in 1945 and whose property and possessions were stolen or lost.
Many councils were all but welcoming to Jewish citizens who returned to claim their homes after the war, even requiring them to pay tax over the periods they had been in hiding or in a camp.