The Holocaust saw the mass murder of Dutch Jews by Nazi Germany in occupied Netherlands during the Second World War. The Nazi occupation in 1940 immediately began disrupting the norms of Dutch society
Monument at Westerbork: Each stone represents one person who was detained at Westerbork prior to being murdered in a Nazi camp, A Star of David for the Jewish victims, 245 stones have a flame, representing the Romani victims. A couple of stones have no symbol, marking a Resistance victim. All 10200 stones together form the shape of the Netherlands.
Yellow Star of David that Dutch Jews were forced to wear
Jewish woman wearing a yellow Star of David during the razzia of 20 June 1943 [nl]
Germans arrest Jews in the Jonas Daniel Meijerplein in Amsterdam, February 1941
Edith Frank was the mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank and her older sister Margot. After the family were discovered in hiding in Amsterdam during the German occupation, she was transported to Aus
Edith in 1939
A Stolperstein for Frank at the Pastorplatz in Aachen, Germany