In this book Ben Braber answers the question how the integration of Jews
into Dutch society influenced Jewish resistance during the German
occupation of the Netherlands in the second world war.
This study highlights the social position of Jews and their group
characteristics, but also reviews other factors that determined what
forms Jewish resistance took such as personal character and individual
circumstance.This is the first comprehensive study of this subject in
the English language of Jewish resistance in the Netherlands. It offers
a new perspective on Jews during the Holocaust and counters the
prejudice about Jews failing to resist persecution.
This book is also relevant for today's multi-ethnical society. It is a
case study about the hampered integration of a minority, in particular
how people in this group react when they are forcefully segregated and
persecuted, while thinking "this cannot happen here".