Holocaust world war 2 Survivor Ya'akov, Jaap van Amerongen testimony coupled with real time historical testimony from Gaza holocaust world war 3
Jaap van Amerongen, Ya’akov, holocaust survivor of
Netherlands. I was president of the Jewish Youth organization, 26 years old
when the Dutch capitulated to Germany. From 140,000 Dutch Jews there were
107,000 deported and of the people deported less than 5,000 ever came back
home. Of these people were ten percent mixed marriages of Jewish and Christian
families. Of the Dutch people living in Amsterdam half of them were Jewish and
they had a big influence there. 1941 we became aware 300 men all of them 20
year olds were taken from the streets and deported to concentration camps. My
uncle was a rich man, popular and charming, he accepted leadership in the
Jewish council of the ghetto without hesitation. July 1942 Germans start to
deport Jews to the east and the Jewish council was assigned to command Jewish
police to bring the number of people on the quota and hand them over to the
Germans. Making the lists and telling what people should go and what people
shouldn’t go. They worked to preserve the people who they deemed more important
for the society however worse and worse the circle they wanted to save was diminished.
When already tens of thousands of people had been deported I shouted terribly
at my uncle to leave with the underground for his own safety, he worked in his
diamond factory to the last day. The Jewish council compared him to Moses and
prayed that he could lead us past this.
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