Viewing the photograph above, you can see a few boys having fun. You might ask yourself, “Who are these boys?” or “What game are they playing?
I don’t know who these boys are. I know they were cared for by the BjZ or Buitenschoolse Jeugdzorg, a part of the Jewish Council in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Buitenschoolse Jeugdzorg cared for Jewish children after school. The activities would include arts & crafts, music, dancing, sports, and other activities.
Fighting was rampant in the Netherlands between the Nazis and the Jews in late January 1941. The fights provoked by the Dutch Nazis helped create a Jewish Council. Hans Böhmcker was an assistant to the Reich Commissioner Arthur Seyß-Inquart for the Netherlands. He ordered the creation of a Jewish and held the Council responsible for maintaining peace and order in the Jewish quarter. The quarter was a ghetto, which had been established shortly after the skirmishes.
The BjZ gave the children some reprieve from their daily life during the German occupation.
It appears to me that the boys are playing football (soccer). There is one more question to ask, “How many survived?” Given the facts today, we know that about 75% of all the Netherlands Jews, were massacred by the Nazi regime—there is a chance that maybe two of the boys, if any, would have survived.
Aside from the obvious horrors of the Holocaust, what was the world deprived of? Who knows if one or more of these boys could have become footballing geniuses like Pele, Johan Cruijff or Maradona?
The more I write about the Holocaust, the more I realize—the ripple effect on the world’s history and future.
For all we know, the scientist who potentially could have foreseen the Covid 19 virus was among the victims of the Holocaust. So much future damage has been caused by the Holocaust, which, of course, is impossible to quantify, and yet, it is something we should never dismiss.
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