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Silence and Small Gestures: Jews and non-Jews in the Netherlands (1940–1945)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2022

Jan Burzlaff*
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History Department, Harvard University, Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Abstract

Through a systematic analysis of 500 Jewish testimonies, this article seeks to expand the social and cultural history of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Shifting the focus away from heated debates about ‘knowledge’ of the Holocaust towards wartime social interactions, it argues that prevailing notions of ‘resistance/collaboration’ and ‘rescue/betrayal’ do not fully account for the civilian obstruction of Nazi policies and many small gestures of support towards Jews. Ultimately, as a crucial addition to German and non-Jewish Dutch sources, Jewish accounts invite further perspectives on the broader landscape of Jews’ perceptions and memories of non-Jews, acts of disobedience and the effects of polarisation across Nazi-occupied Western Europe.

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22 One recurrent point of criticism remains the ‘representativeness’ of the sample used, but as this essay hopes to demonstrate, the best remedy is to combine scales of analysis and as many testimonies as possible.

23 For a book forum in English and these points of critique, see Burzlaff, Jan, ‘Introduction’, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 39, 2 (2021), 236–45CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and 246–86 for four insightful essays. Parting ways with Sémelin's small selection of sources, this essay strives for a larger sample.

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35 Miep Lakmaker, WHL, PIII/785, 2. Similar trajectories for Bloeme Evers-Emden, VHA 5088 and Janny Moffie, VHA 4538. On sexual violence, see below.

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63 Herbert K., HVT 1680, 1988; Sophie F, HVT 1788, 1991.

64 Clearly propounded in Lijphart, Arend, The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in the Netherlands (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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69 Leonard Vis, USHMM, RG-50.030.0559; L. Ziekenoppasser–Sjouwerman, NIOD, 244, 1596 and 814.

70 Karel Poons, USHMM, RG-50.030.0183. Meijer Emmerik, NIOD 244, 1966, 5ff.

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76 Most vocally in Gans and Ensel, eds., The Holocaust, Israel and ‘the Jew’.

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81 Marion P., HVT 0754, 1986, and HVT 1097, 1988 who is the well-known Marion Pritchard-van Bisnbergen.

82 Gigi Kray, WHL, PIII 769; Emmerik, NIOD, 34 and 43.

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87 Ilse L., HVT 0294, 1984; Elsa and Kurt S., HVT 2261, 1991; Sara T., HVT 3436, 1995; Isidor Bob Trijbetz, YVA, O.33/9335.

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90 Hetty D., HVT 0874, 1991.

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92 Expanding the first (situational helpers) and third (empathy) of four factors of rescue in: Lawrence Baron, ‘The Dynamics of Decency: Dutch Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust’, Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecture, St Lawrence University (1985), 6.

93 See Romijn, Burgemeesters in Oorlogstijd–Besturen.

94 Among others, van der Heijden, Chris, Grijs Verleden. Nederland en de Tweede Wereldoorlog (Amsterdam: Contact, 2001), 15Google Scholar, controversially painted a bleak picture of ‘human deficits’.

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