Activity 11: Assembly Presentation

“It’s being said in underground circles that the German Jews who emigrated to Holland before the war and have now been sent to Poland shouldn’t  be allowed to return here.  They were granted the right to asylum in Holland, but once Hitler is gone, they should go back to Germany.

When you hear that, you begin to wonder why we’re fighting this long and difficult war.  We’re always being told that we’re fighting for freedom, truth and justice !  The war isn’t even over, and already there’s dissension and Jews are regarded as lesser beings.  Oh, it’s sad, very sad that the old adage has been confirmed for the umpteenth time: ’What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflects on all Jews.’

I have only one hope; that this anti-Semitism is just a passing thing, that the Dutch will show their true colours, that they’ll never waiver from what they know in their hearts to be just, for this unjust !

And if they ever carry out this terrible threat, the meagre handful of Jews still left in Holland will have to go.  We too will have to shoulder our bundles and move on away from this beautiful country, which once so kindly took us in and now turns its back on us. 

I love Holland.  Once I hoped it would become a fatherland to me, since I had lost my own.  And I hope so still.”