Author Description

Describes Jewish life in 19 Dutch provincial towns and cities in the 1930s, during the war period, and after the liberation, based on memoirs by former Jewish inhabitants. Sketches the Nazi anti-Jewish measures, the active role played by members of the Dutch Nazi party, the cooperation of the local police and civil authorities, the raids on and deportation of Jewish children and adults in Winterswijk, Leiden, Lochem, Winschoten, Middelburg, Zutphen, Zandvoort, Borculo, Bergen op Zoom, The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Weesp, and Stadskanaal, and the erection of a monument. Discusses transit camp Westerbork, Alphen aan de Rijn, and Enschede. also sketches postwar expressions of antisemitism in the 1990s in Diemen by soccer supporters and in Zandvoort against the participants of a silent demonstration to commemorate the victims of World War II.