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sewn PAPERBACK, fine copy, essentially like new. MOORE, BOB. Victims and survivors: the Nazi persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940-1945. London ;: Arnold, 1997, x, 340pp., . How was it possible, in a country proud of its traditions of liberalism and tolerance, that such a large proportion of its Jewish citizens could fall victim to Nazi genocide, when those in France and Belgium fared markedly better? Bob Moore's comprehensive study, the first in English in nearly 30 years, examines all the central elements of the question, exploring in depth the nature of the Nazi persecutors, their victims, and the specific circumstances of the German occupation of the Netherlands. - CONTENTS: 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. 9780340691571 ISBN 0340691573.…