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Jewish Immigrants in the Netherlands during the Nazi Occupation
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- The MIT Press
- Volume 37, Number 4, Spring 2007
- pp. 543-562
- Article
- Additional Information
In 1941, 16 percent of the Jews in the Netherlands were immigrants. Analysis of documentary evidence shows that foreign-born Jews—especially those who emigrated from Germany and Austria after Adolf Hitler's rise to power—had a better chance of surviving the Holocaust, and a longer survival time, than Dutch-born Jews. These ªndings indicate that the motives for emigration and the special opportunities afforded to certain groups to escape and hide were important to survival.