De vervolging van de Joodse christenen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog

Samenvatting

Although much has been written about individual Jewish Christians or the Jewish members of different Christian churches of the Netherlands during World War II, the first comprehensive study of the fate of the Jewish Christians in the Holocaust has yet to be written. This article initiates attention for the number and fate of those Dutch Christian Jews who lived in mixed marriages. The number of the Jewish Christians in Europe during World War II may be higher than often is assumed. According to my estimate between 60.000 and 120.000 of them perished in the Holocaust. Many survived not because they happened to be Christian or were baptized, but because they lived in a mixed marriage. The first separate churches of Jewish Christians in Europe were founded in the concentration camps (Westerbork, Theresienstadt) and ghetto’s (Warsaw). After the World War II, Jewish Christians faced the same problems (dealing with the past, second and third generation problems) as did other Jews