Goodbye Holland (2004)

Directed by

Willy Lindwer

Genre

documentary film

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

1h 30m

How it feels

This documentary examines the extermination of Dutch Jews during World War II. It challenges the idea that the Netherlands was a safe haven by showing how local police and officials helped the Nazis deport over 100,000 Jews.

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What happens

Goodbye Holland is a 2004 documentary about the extermination of Dutch Jews during World War II. The film debunks the accepted notion that the Dutch were 'good' during the war, exposing how Dutch police and civil servants helped the German occupying regime implement massive deportations, which resulted in the death of 78 percent of the Jews in the Netherlands. In truth, the above death rate of Jews from the Netherlands masks the much greater tragedy. There were approximately 140,000 Jews in the Netherlands at the time of the German invasion in May 1940. They included about 25,000 Jews who escaped mostly from Germany and Austria and some from other countries. When the deportations began in 1942 the Nazis did not deport Jews in mixed marriages. About 25,000 Jews were exempt from deportation or went into hiding, half of whom who were hiding were caught or betrayed. Of the 107,000 Jews from the Netherlands actually deported to the concentration camps only about 5000 survived, about 4%. So the actual death rate of arrested, deported and murdered Jews from the Netherlands was closer to 96%. The documentary was made by Emmy Award winning director Willy Lindwer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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