Jewish Council

The Family, One-by-One, Are Transported to Concentration Camps

The Cohen Family, Sonja, her sister Judie and her parents

On a Sunday in June in 1942, the Jewish Council mailed out the first batch of envelopes containing orders to report. Last names, A through D, under the age of forty were first.

Life After The Netherlands Surrendered to the Germans

The first couple of weeks into the German invasion, nothing noticeably changed. Although they knew of the social and economic hardships in Nazi Germany, Dutch Jews were still convinced that such things could never happen in Holland. But, things started changing slowly. Small groups of national socialists, mostly uneducated and unemployed thugs, started harassing Jews in movie theaters, stores, and restaurants.