February Strike News Today

In Amsterdam, the February strike of 1941 will be commemorated again on Sunday afternoon on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein. Mayor Femke Halsema and writer Johan Fretz, among others, will give a speech. Wreaths and flowers are also laid at the statue of De Dokwerker on the square.

Experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have suggested that with its combined strikes on Ukraine on 7 January, Russia was trying to distract the Ukrainian air defence network with one particular type of missiles so that the more powerful ones could reach their intended targets.

It was a nostalgic old ice cream parlor that drew a film crew to Columbus, Indiana, which will double for 1940s-era Amsterdam.

It was a nostalgic old ice cream parlor that drew a film crew to Columbus, Indiana, which will double for 1940s-era Amsterdam.

It was a nostalgic old ice cream parlor that drew a film crew to Columbus, Indiana, which will double for 1940s-era Amsterdam.

"The Ice Cream Man," a short film about the Holocaust starring Noah Emmerich will be shot this March in Columbus, Indiana. Based on the true story of Ernst...

From the blog of Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden at The Times of Israel

It was the start of a consequential yet often-overlooked milestone of the Holocaust: the February Strike. On Feb. 25, 1941, at least 100,000 Dutchmen stopped working to protest the Nazis’ persecution of Jews, bringing the economy to a halt for days. Although it was soon broken and German authorities retaliated with even more violence, it galvanized the Dutch resistance and became a lasting symbol of it. Today it is known as the first and largest act of civilian insurrection over the treatment...