If you look at the photograph above, it appears to be a photo of a marketplace. Initially, you will see nothing wrong with it.
There is a man with a bike talking to another man, possibly about the weather. You can see a young boy running, and perhaps he is chasing the dog.
There are market stalls with people around them, browsing and most likely purchasing goods. It could be a market anywhere in the world. This market is on Waterloo Square in Amsterdam.
But the apparent mundane appearance of the market is deceiving. If you analyze the picture and look closer, you will spot a few things.
In the middle, there is a signpost that says, Alleen toegang voor joden [Access for Jews only]. On the two opposite corners, two men wearing a star on their coats.
Most of those people on that market would be murdered within two years of that picture being taken. There would have been people then and even now who would think that things didn’t look that bad at all for the Jews, they even had their market.
The people in the photo don’t realize the significance of the photograph. It was meant to deceive. The Jews were given their market and other facilities to make it easier for the Nazis to single them out. They had to wear a star so the Nazis could pick them out. They were put in ghettos to make it easier to round them up for deportation to extermination camps.
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