Victims and survivors : the Nazi persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 / Bob Moore.

Includes bibliographical references (315-333) and index.

Introduction. Historians and the Holocaust in the Netherlands structure -- The Jews and the Netherlands before 1940. The development of Jewish communities in the Netherlands -- The Jews and Dutch society -- Jews and the economy in the 1930s -- Social developments in the 1930s -- International comparisons -- Invasion and occupation : the first months. War and invasion -- Occupation and first restrictions -- The steps to identification -- Isolation. The formation of the Jewish Council and the February strike -- Power struggles within the German administration -- The isolation of the Jews -- Deportation and extermination. The deportations -- Reflections on the Jewish Council -- Survival : exemptions and exclusions. Jewish Council exemptions -- 'Calmeyer Jews' -- 'Mixed marriages' -- Baptised Jews -- Foreign Jews -- The 'Barneveld group' -- Other lists -- The Weinreb controversy -- Economic exemptions -- Survival in hiding. The numbers involved and the problem of sources -- The decision to go underground -- Hiding places and life underground -- Self-help, rescuers and bystanders. The Jews and their neighbors -- The motives of the rescuers -- Rescue activities -- Persecutors, pursuers and accomplices. The German administration -- The Dutch bureaucracy -- The Dutch police -- The 'Jew-hunters' -- The survival of foreign Jews. A better chance of survival? -- The 'favourable factors' -- The last year of occupation and the realities of liberation. The last year of occupation -- Liberation and the return home -- Jewish orphans -- The restoration of Jewish property -- 'Jewish collaboration' -- Post-war antisemitism -- Conclusion. Appendix -- Chronology of the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands -- Notes -- Glossary and abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.