BLACK GERMAN SURVIVOR OF THE HOLOCAUST

[Art Barr]

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Dutch apologise to Anton de Kom's family, fund VU research - DutchNews.nl

The Dutch government has officially apologised to the relatives of Anton de Kom, a Surinamese author, activist and resistance fighter, who died in a Nazi concentration camp after being shunned by the Netherlands. In addition, the foreign affairs ministry is funding a chair at Amsterdam’s VU...

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Anton de Kom

Anton de Kom is a Surinamese anti-colonial writer, activist, and resistance hero. In 1934, he publishes his book entitled Wij slaven van Suriname [We Slaves of…

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Anton de Kom was an Afro-Surinamese freedom fighter, anti-colonial writer and an activist. He died in a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1945.

We Slaves of Suriname was his own work and the first book written by an Afro-Surinamese man.

His book was BANNED by The Netherlands out of fear of it’s content causing uprisings throughout the African Diaspora.

Only recently his book was republished with instant classic reviews, putting his work alongside the likes of Frantz Fanon and W.E.B Dubois.

Since then The Netherlands has given him honor repair and added his work to the Canon of The Netherlands.
RIP Anton de Kom

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[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Everything they did in Germany they did in Namibia. Yet it's not classified as a Holocaust.

Technically there are many Black people who experience those atrocities regardless of being in Germany or not.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Everything they did in Germany they did in Namibia. Yet it's not classified as a Holocaust.

Technically there are many Black people who experience those atrocities regardless of being in Germany or not.

Yep. They learned concentration camps from the British during the Boer War and scientific racism from American environmentalists.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Yep. They learned concentration camps from the British during the Boer War and scientific racism from American environmentalists.

Yup my grandfather's generation was in those camps in Kenya