Jewish Christian’s in the Netherlands during the Holocaust: Abridged Version
While not presuming to cover all aspects of the subject matter, this book does attempt to highlight that Jewish followers of Jesus also suffered and died – as Jews – during the Holocaust.
At
least 140,000 Jewish people lived in the Netherlands at the time of the
Nazi-German invasion on 10 May 1940. By 1945 up to 104,000 of these
people had been murdered in the Holocaust. While most of these were
Dutch nationals, there were also many foreign Jews as well. Included in
this overall number were many Jewish Christians who were associated with
most of the denominations in the Netherlands. This book looks at the
impact the Nazi anti-Jewish legislation had upon the Jewish people in
the Netherlands, through the seven phases which led to the ultimate
‘final solution to the Jewish problem’.
The
narrative follows the life of one Jewish Protestant, Johannes
Rottenberg (who died at Mauthausen), in particular, but also the lives
of other representative Jewish Protestants including Ernst Cassutto (who
survived); as well as representative Jewish Catholics, including Edith
Stein and the Lob family (most of whom died at Auschwitz).
While
not presuming to cover all aspects of the subject matter, this book
does attempt to highlight that Jewish followers of Jesus also suffered
and died – as Jews – during the Holocaust.