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On Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 February 1941, the Ordnungspolizei (German police) rounded up Jewish men at Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in Amsterdam. 427 men between the ages of 18 and 35 were arrested, forcibly pushed into lorries and deported. The razzia was Nazi punishment for fights that had occurred between Jews, antisemitic thugs, and the German police.
The Jews who were arrested were taken to Camp Schoorl. From there, they were deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, where all but one of them died. The Amsterdam population was shocked by this brutal German action. A few days later, a major strike was organised in protest.
Photo: Razzia on Jonas Daniël Meijerplein square. Amsterdam, 22 or 23 February 1941.

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