Then , in 1938 Germany annexed Austria and the Sudetenland regions of Czechoslovakia . Many refugees then came from those regions as well . On the night of November 9 , 1938 , there were violent pogroms against Jews across the German Reich , and the imprisonment of thousands of Jews without charges . This led to a further increase in the number of Jews streaming across the border seeking refuge and further emigration . Ultimately , the Committee had become " one of the most powerful organizations in Dutch Jewry in the 1930s . " World War II started in September 1939 . The Netherlands were invaded and occupied by Germany in May 1940 . The Committee continued its work until Germany closed it in March 1941 . One of the Committee 's main goals had been to help Jewish refugees emigrate . About 22,000 refugees had left the continent of Europe with the Committee 's help . These refugees thus escaped murder in The Holocaust . Germany occupied the Netherlands until 1945 . About 100,000 Jews from the Netherlands were deported and killed during the German occupation
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Committee for Jewish Refugees (Netherlands)