The “February strike” was commemorated here last Saturday as it had been for the last 32 years. The strike was staged by workers on Feb. 26, 1941 on the occasion of the deportation of the first 400 Jewish young men by the Germans. The strike did not reverse the deportations and the young Jews all perished in Mauthausen within a few months. The strike was also followed by increasing anti-Jewish measures by the Germans and eventually by Jewish mass deportations. The strike, however, marked the beginning of Dutch wartime resistance.
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