February Strike in Amsterdam: Dutch Workers Protest the Holocaust
The tram drivers walked off first. Then the dockworkers. Then everyone else. Within 24 hours, 300,000 Amsterdam residents were on strike — the only mass protest against Jewish deportations in Nazi-occupied Europe. The Wehrmacht declared martial law. Nine people were shot in the streets. The strike lasted two days before being crushed. But the Nazis noticed: they deported Dutch Jews more slowly than anywhere else, worried about another uprising. Two days of silence bought thousands of people months of life.
February 25, 1941
85 years ago
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