February strike

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The February strike was a 1941 general strike in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, organized primarily by Dutch workers to protest the persecution of Jews and the actions of the German occupiers.

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instanceOf general strike
historical event
protest
alsoKnownAs Februaristaking
February Strike of 1941
cause German raids on Jewish neighborhoods in Amsterdam
anti-Jewish measures by Nazi occupiers
arrest and deportation of Jewish men from Amsterdam
persecution of Jews in the Netherlands
commemoratedBy De Dokwerker monument
annual remembrance on 25 February in Amsterdam
country Netherlands
endTime 1941-02-26
hasMonument De Dokwerker
historicalPeriod 1940s
languageOfName Dutch
location Amsterdam
Haarlem
Hilversum
Utrecht
Zaandam NERFINISHED
monumentLocation Jonas Daniël Meijerplein, Amsterdam
motive resistance to German occupation policies
solidarity with persecuted Jews
natureOfEvent anti-Nazi protest
political strike
opposedBy German occupation authorities in the Netherlands
Nazi Germany
opposedIdeology Nazism
opposedPolicy anti-Jewish legislation in the Netherlands
organizer Communist Party of the Netherlands
Dutch workers
tram workers in Amsterdam
participant dock workers
metal workers
municipal employees
shop workers
students
tram workers
partOf Dutch resistance
surface form: Dutch resistance to Nazi occupation
result arrests of strikers
executions of resistance members
harsher repressive measures by occupiers
strike violently suppressed by German forces
significance first mass protest in Nazi-occupied Europe against persecution of Jews
startTime 1941-02-25
temporalContext Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
World War II

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