Roundup of Dutch Jews Broadside

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.78

Object Name

Broadside

Date

2-1-1941

Files

Description

A bright red sheet titled "Bekendmaking" with Dutch text.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Broadside issued by SS Brigade leader Hans Rauter ordering roundup of Dutch Jews following an incident in which a number of German police were sprayed with ammonia upon entering an ice cream shop in Amsterdam named Koko. Apparently, the ammonia was part of a system designed to ward off unwanted intruders indiscriminately. In retaliation for this perceived indignity, SS Brigade leader Hans Rauter ordered the roundup of four hundred Jewish men aged twenty to thirty-five years, warning that any demonstration against German occupation authorities would be brutally suppressed. Most of these men were deported to concentration camps. In response, the Dutch Communist Party organized a municipal workers’ strike in Amsterdam that quickly grew into a general strike across the country, which Rauter indeed brutally suppressed. Ernst Cahn, the owner of the ice cream shop, was shot by a firing squad soon after refusing to identify under torture the individuals who had installed the ammonia canister in his shop. His partner in the ice cream shop, Alfred Kohn, would be deported to Auschwitz where he died in April 1945.

Dimensions

10 x 7"

Keywords

Amsterdam, SS, brigade leader, Netherlands, Koco Affair, Woustraat, Deportation, Buchenwald, Matthausen, Dutch communist party, strike, Hans Rauter, Ernst Cahn

Subcollection

Netherlands

Recommended Citation

"Roundup of Dutch Jews Broadside" (1941). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.78.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/752