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Ruth was incarcerated in Westerbork in and later Bergen-Belsen with her mother and two sisters. This is an extract from a report by Bene Otto, the German Foreign Office Representative in Holland on the progress of Jewish deportations from the country. Of these, 72, have been deported to work in the east. Another 10, Jews have left the country in other ways deportations to Reich German concentration camps, internment camp, relocation to Theresienstadt, emigration, flight from the country.

This report was made by Miss E De. Boer, explaining some aspects of the persecution that Jews faced following the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland. This is a banknote from Westerbork Concentration Camp, issued on the 15 February and worth 10 cents. As normal currency was banned and confiscated in the camp, these vouchers were distributed as an incentive for inmates to complete work.

This is a part of a ration card from the Netherlands during the Second World War, entitling the holder to twenty rations of meat. Food in the Netherlands was rationed throughout the Nazi occupation. Within four days, after witnessing the bombing of Rotterdam and the threat of the same in Amsterdam, the Dutch army surrendered. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands fled to Great Britain, where she established a government-in-exile.

Hitler ordered the creation of a German civil administration in the Netherlands under the command of the SS. After Hitler came to power in , many German Jews began to emigrate to the Netherlands.

The Netherlands had remained a neutral power during the First World War, and so many German Jews believed that they would be safe from persecution there. The Netherlands was home to , Jews, with approximately 75, Jews living in the capital, Amsterdam. Between September and November , Jewish newspapers were closed down, Jewish civil servants were sacked and the assets of all Jewish businesses were registered. Following this, Jewish students were also expelled from schools and universities.

In January , all Jews living within the Netherlands were ordered to register themselves with the SS. A total of , persons registered, including 19, born of mixed marriages. The total also included approximately 25, Jewish refugees from Germany. In the second half of , the Joodse Raad was forced to provide lists of Jews to work in forced labour camps for the German war effort.

In January , persecution escalated as the Nazis ordered the concentration of Jews in Amsterdam. In July , the Germans began transporting Jews who had gathered in Amsterdam to Westerbork, a camp in the north-east of the Netherlands. Westerbork was a transit camp , and Jews were then transported again to extermination camps in the east.

The Dutch police actively collaborated and assisted the German authorities in the rounding up of Jews on the streets or in their homes. Dutch railway workers also administered and operated the trains in which Jews were deported to and from Westerbork. The last train left Westerbork for Auschwitz-Birkenau on 3 September , by which time , Jews had been deported.

Of this number, only 5, people survived. The Nazis soon realised that their antisemitic actions would not be able to be easily implemented without resistance from the population of the Netherlands. In response to this fight, the Germans arrested young people and transported them to Buchenwald. Many of the Dutch population were outraged at this open show of brutality.

In response, many Dutch workers went on strike on the 25 February The strike was violently suppressed by the Nazis, forcing the Dutch population back to work. Some of the Dutch population also actively involved themselves more covertly by hiding some Jews from the Nazis. In total, 25,, Jews managed to go into hiding assisted by the Dutch underground.

Of this number, two-thirds managed to survive. Dear Brother! I wish you luck and a flourishing future. Your faithful sister. This drawing also features in the notebook made by Sonja Jaslowitz for her brother Harry. The drawing shows Sonja and Harry saying goodbye at the station as Harry departs for England. Sonja and her parents went through several ghettos and concentration camps in Transnistria, and survived.

Tragically, shortly after liberation her father contracted Tuberculosis and died. Sonja was killed shortly after by a British bomb on Bucharest. She was seventeen. Their mother, Lotte, travelled to England where she was reunited with Harry. This report is from the Einszatgruppen , killing squads which followed behind the German Army. This report details the collaboration and help offered by the Romanian police. Romania was not occupied but allied with Nazi Germany from onwards, collaborating with them in policy and in the war.

Antonescu also brought members of the Iron Guard into government, a far-right, and highly antisemitic political party. Romania actively assisted the Nazis in the invasion of the Soviet Union. The Romanian army and police forces collaborated with the Nazis helping to plan and carry out the murders of thousands of Jews. They also acted independently to carry out several barbaric executions and pogroms in annexed or occupied territories.

The new government signed an agreement with the Soviet Union that formally acknowledged that Romania was no longer allied with Germany. The Iron Guard, the political party brought into government by Antonescu, initially led the physical attacks on Jews in Romania.

Jews were beaten up in the streets, and often killed as a result of random attacks on their homes and businesses. The Antonescu government also escalated prior antisemitic laws implemented by previous governments to restrict every area of Jewish life. Jews were banned from owning any type of rural property. Jewish businesses were nationalised. Jews were excluded from almost every profession of work, and all areas of education both as teachers and students.

From the 27 July , Jews were not allowed to travel. More camps soon followed, such as Bogdanovka , where over 40, Jews perished at the hands of the Romanian authorities.

The occupation of the Sudetenland, the border regions in the north and west of Czechoslovakia, was the first time Hitler flexed his military muscles in Europe. The region was conceded to Germany by the Czech government in an attempt to avoid war after the Germans made demands for it to be handed over. For Hitler, this fulfilled two aims. One was to unite the German speaking people of this region with Germany, supporting his goal of a larger, united German nation.

The other was that it let him test how far he could push other European powers, who backed down rather than defend Czechoslovakia from German threats. Like the occupation of the Sudetenland, that of Austria was part of a drive towards a great Germany. Austria had been part of the German Confederation until Prussia pushed it out in the Austro-Prussian War of , ensuring that Prussia led German unification five years later. There had been an attempt to include Austria in a larger Germany in though other countries blocked this.

To Hitler, taking over Austria — a move known as Anschluss — was simply the expansion of Germany to its natural borders. Having brought most Germans together, Hitler wanted more space for them to live in. This was to come at the expense of other people, who he saw as inferior.