What the records say
- When
- 25 Feb 1941 – 27 Feb 1941
- Kind
- Strike
- Coordinates
- 36.33° N, 82.50° W
- Description
- strikes organized on 25 and 26 February 1941 as an act of resistance against the expulsion of Jews from Dutch society by the German occupiers
Placed at the town its title names, February.
February strike
1941 labour strike in the German-occupied Netherlands during WWII
The February strike of 1941 was a general strike in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. It was organized by the outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands in defence of persecuted Dutch Jews and against the anti-Jewish measures and the activities of Nazism in general.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The occupied Netherlands starts the first popular uprising in Europe against the Axis powers, the "February strike" against German deportation of Jews in…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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