Five Brothers and a War

1941 Summary

DATE

EVENT

Government levies luisterbijdrage from owners of radios.

Jan 01, 1941

Jan 09

Dutch theatres, cinemas bar Jews.

Jan 10

Registration of all Jews commences.

Jan 27

Dutch Nazis publicly against Amsterdam's Jews. First issue appears of underground paper De Vonk.

Feb 01

A number of Hilversum physicians arrested.

Feb 06

Former premier De Geer returns from exile in England.

Feb 09

Dutch Nazis cause riots in Amsterdam's Jewish district, one Nazi killed.

Underground paper Het Parool appears.

Feb 10

Feb 12

Plans for Jewish Council announced. Jews ordered to hand in weapons.

Feb 17

Former Dutch army career officers ordered to register. Steelworkers go on strike in Amsterdam.

Feb 19

Dutch Nazis and Jewish combat teams in clash at Amsterdam's IJssalon Koco.

Feb 22-23

Himmler orders first round-ups of Jews in Amsterdam's Jewish district, 400 arrested.

Feb 24

Court convenes against resistance group, “De Geuzen.”

Feb 25

Start of the so-called February strike, led by Amsterdam's longshoremen, protesting persecution of Jews. The Germans - including war criminal Klaus Barbie - retaliate with force. Strikes spread to Zaandam, Haarlem, Hilversum, Utrecht, Velp and Weesp.

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Feb 28

Introduction of compulsory labor for unemployed Dutchmen.

Mar 03

The first labor camp of the Dutch Labor Service operational. Mussert visits Nazi propaganda chief Goebbels.

Mar 06

Communist resistance fighter Leen Schijveschuurder executed for strike activities.

Mar 13

The Germans order Dutch radio societies disbanded. Fifteen members of the resistance group “De Geuzen‘”and three communist strike leaders executed in Amsterdam. (Later, the fallen became widely-known when poet Campert wrote his resistance classic “De achttien doden ” [“The 18 Dead”] on the wall of his cell).

Mar 14

Jewish business owners get Nazi “supervisors.”

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