Language:
English
Year of publication:
1984
Titel der Quelle:
Dutch Jewish History
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1984) 421-432
Keywords:
Jewish children in the Holocaust
;
Jewish children History 20th century
;
Jewish orphans Legal status, laws, etc.
;
Holocaust survivors
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Relates how Dutch resistance groups helped to rescue and hide Jewish children during the Holocaust. Then, discusses the bitter contest which developed after the war between the resistance groups and the Jewish community for custody of these children. The legislation which set up the Commission for War Foster Children in August 1945 assumed that the parents would not return, defined the children as foster children (like children who were abandoned and neglected) and not as orphans, gave the resistance groups a preferred status on the guardianship board, and coopted Jews selected by criteria of the resistance groups (i.e. no inclusion of religious Jews or Zionists). The resistants had a vision of a non-racial, non-partisan postwar Dutch society, and accused the Jews of an indecent lack of gratitude in demanding the return of their children. States that from its inception the spirit and structure of the Commission were inherently offensive to the Jewish minority. Most of the children were eventually placed in Jewish surroundings or sent to Palestine, but the bitter memory of the conflict persists amongst Dutch Jews.
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