Jerusalem Post
Film makes case against Holland
Jenny Hazan Apr. 15, 2004
When most of us think about which countries were most acquiescent with the Nazis' Final Solution, Holland doesn't usually come to mind.
In Goodbye Holland a two-part documentary on the destruction of Dutch Jewry, Amsterdam/Jerusalem-based filmmaker Willy Lindwer tries to change that.
"The Dutch have always been given credit for playing a heroic role during the Nazi occupation of Holland," says Lindwer, who was born in Amsterdam in 1946 to Polish/Ukrainian Jewish parents who had fled from their home countries because of anti-Semitism in the 1930s.
"I believe Anne Frank is pivotal to this notion," says Lindwer. "She is the single most powerful icon of the Holocaust, whose family was hidden by Dutch citizens despite the great risk they faced."
"But," he says, "what most people don't realize is that Anne Frank was betrayed by a Dutch citizen, arrested by Dutch police, imprisoned in a Nazi camp guarded by Dutch military police and deported to Auschwitz on a train operated by a Dutch crew."
According to Lindwer, Frank traveled the same route as 107,000 Dutch Jews - about 80% of the Jewish population in Holland - who were systematically rounded up, imprisoned and deported with the active participation of Dutch citizens, administrators and politicians. About 104,000 Dutch Jews ended up dying in Nazi concentration camps. Of thousands of Dutch civil servants, only 17 refused to sign the German Loyalty Act, and of the scores of Dutch newspapers, only three ceased to publish rather than accept German supervision.
Says Lindwer: "In short, the Dutch Holocaust was carried out almost entirely by Dutch citizens. In actuality, Holland holds the worst record among Western European countries in regards to the fate of its Jewish population."
Lindwer decided he had to prove this. He traveled to Groningen, a provincial city in the northern part of Holland where all but 150 of the city's 3,000 Jews were killed, and to Varsseveld, a countryside village on the eastern border where Lindwer's own aunt and uncle were turned in to the Nazi authorities by a local family.
During his travels, Lindwer interviewed two former Dutch policemen and one train conductor who were involved in the massacre of Dutch Jewry; one Dutch survivor, who now lives in Israel; and the current mayor of Groningen, Jacques Wallage, who helped Lindwer finally uncover the government's records of its participation in the destruction of the city's Jewish population.
The end result is Lindwer's 18th film about the Holocaust, Goodbye Holland which was made by and shown on Holland's Channel 1 NCRV-Dokument slot.
Lindwer recalls trying to air his first film, about the dubious role of the Dutch police during the occupation, on public television in The Netherlands in 1969.
"While I was working on the film, many police officials with a doubtful war past were still sitting in high positions," he explains. "They refused to show it because the subject was too delicate and too controversial."
According to Lindwer, not much has changed since then.
"Thirty-five years later, I have once again encountered enormous opposition."
In addition to its television screening in The Netherlands, Goodbye Holland will be shown on Channel 2 on Holocaust Remembrance Day; the first part on April 18 at 10 p.m. and the second on April 19 at 7 p.m.
"We have never shown anything on television about the Jews of Holland during the Holocaust," says Yossi Mulla, Executive Producer at Channel 2, which also screened the film. "Here in Israel, most of us don't think beyond the story of Anne Frank, but Lindwer's investigation tells a whole different story."
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"Fans of the Feyenoord Rotterdam club have published anti-Semitic slurs"
Is Rotterdam one of the Dutch cities that have become a Muslim enclave?
This on the same day that some Euro-weenies are tut-tutting about "social injustice" in the US.
The world is going to pots.....
....video footage will be shown on the popular European TV show, "Europe's Funniest Jew Killings!".
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These people are pathetic. I can see why my ancestors wanted to get as far away as possible from these cretins.
Looks like this applies to the Dutch as well.
They feel "safe" now to attack Jews again, now that people seem to have forgotten the evil that they have performed in the past. Most of the Dutch Jews who survived the Dutch Jew haters of WWII are now dead and can no longer give testimony as to the truth about the blackness in their souls.
It is only worthy to note that most of the Jews there are now gone, and the only way to vent their vast reservoir of hate is to scream at the occasional Jewish soccer player that they can identify.
They deserve the socialist givernment they have. They deserve the Euro, they deserve their new population of Muslims, and they deserve the devaluation of their culture. The only thing left for their hate is to eat their own.
Dear God! What year is this?
I actually spent last night checking Travelocity for flights to Amsterdam since I've never been there.Thought it would be a nice little trip in the fall.
After reading this,forget about it!!!!!!!!
This is all about an utterly disgusting rap song that's been circulating on the internet lately. Nothing more, nothing less. I certainly wouldn't describe it as "kill all Jews in stadium say Dutch soccer fans". I doubt if the rappers are soccer fans at all, or even if they know what a Jew *really* is. Ignorance rules these days.
A few weeks ago we had a rap song in which a Dutch MP, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (black female anti-muslim conservative, they love her here on FreeRepublic I think), was being threatened ("we'll cut her in two pieces and drop her in the sea"). There was shock and outrage and the kids got arrested. A few months earlier another filthy anti-Jewish song ("kankerjoden") made the news. It seems to be the thing these days, shocking disgusting lyricks, spread on the internet, by -ahem- innocent little kids who don't know what they're talking about and are out for a cheap shocker. It is rumoured that they are inspired by this gangsta rap rubbish - evil American influences ;).
Alltogether it's disgusting enough. But it's not the massive outbreak of antisemitism this thread seems to suggest.
Ajax Amsterdam is also the only team that has an American, midfielder John O'Brien, on its squad.
This must be the Europe that the demonrats want us to be like.