Between Community and Collaboration: ‘Jewish Councils’ in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation

Media contributions

• Title	Zeven Cleopatra's en Joodse Raden in het buitenland
  Degree of recognition	National
  Media name/outlet	Historische BoekenCast, aflevering 29
  Media type	Other
  Country/Territory	Netherlands
  Date	01/09/2024
  Description	De Joodse Raad moest het Duitse vervolgingsbeleid vertalen naar de Joodse gemeenschap en probeerde ondertussen erger te voorkomen. Dat streven was gedoemd te mislukken, weten we nu. Joodse raden in Frankrijk en België brachten het er beter vanaf. Maar lag dat aan hun keuzes of aan de omstandigheden? Historica Laurien Vastenhout schreef er een belangrijk boek over.
  Producer/Author	Jos Palm / Historisch Nieuwsblad
  URL	https://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/boekencast/
  Persons	Laurien Vastenhout

• Title	Laurien Vastenhout, 'Between Community and Collaboration'
  Degree of recognition	International
  Media name/outlet	New Book Network Podcast
  Media type	Other
  Country/Territory	Netherlands
  Date	23/08/2024
  Description	The New Books Network is a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to public education. In this episode Laurien Vastenhout is being interviewed about her 2022 book 'Between Community and Collaboration'. The book is the first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period, there was extensive focus on these organisations' controversial role as facilitators of the Holocaust. They were seen as instruments of Nazi oppression, aiding the process of isolating and deporting the Jews they were ostensibly representing. As a result, they have chiefly been remembered as forms of collaboration. Using a wide range of sources including personal testimonies, diaries, administrative documents and trial records, Laurien Vastenhout demonstrates that the nature of the Nazi regime, and its outlook on these bodies, was far more complex. She sets the conduct of the Councils' leaders in their prewar and wartime social and situational contexts and provides a thorough understanding of their personal contacts with the Germans and clandestine organisations. Between Community and Collaboration: 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation (Cambridge UP, 2022) reveals what German intentions with these organisations were during the course of the occupation, and allows for a deeper understanding of the different ways in which the Holocaust unfolded in each of these countries.
  Producer/Author	Ari Barbalat
  URL	https://newbooksnetwork.com/between-community-and-collaboration
  Persons	Laurien Vastenhout

• Title	Zullen we het ooit eens worden over de Joodse Raad?
  Degree of recognition	National
  Media name/outlet	Vrij Nederland
  Media type	Printed press
  Country/Territory	Netherlands
  Date	02/05/2024
  Description	Interview met Laurien Vastenhout n.a.v. haar boek 'Between community and collaboration : 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe under Nazi occupation'.
  Producer/Author	Friederike de Raat
  URL	https://www.vn.nl/eens-worden-over-de-joodse-raad/
  Persons	Laurien Vastenhout

• Title	‘Als de oorlog korter had geduurd, dan waren de leden van de Joodse Raad helden’
  Degree of recognition	National
  Media name/outlet	Trouw
  Media type	Printed press
  Country/Territory	Netherlands
  Date	02/05/2024
  Producer/Author	Thomas Sijtsma
  URL	https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/als-de-oorlog-korter-had-geduurd-dan-waren-de-leden-van-de-joodse-raad-helden~b6b50b08/
  Persons	Laurien Vastenhout

• Title	Nazi-appointed Jewish Councils largely exonerated in transnational comparative study
  Degree of recognition	International
  Media name/outlet	The Times of Israel
  Media type	Online journalism
  Country/Territory	Israel
  Date	26/01/2023
  Description	In her new book, Dutch historian Laurien Vastenhout disproves long-held, often damaging assumptions about Holocaust-era ‘Judenräte’ in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
  Producer/Author	Matt Lebovic
  URL	https://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-appointed-jewish-councils-largely-exonerated-in-transnational-comparative-study/
  Persons	Laurien Vastenhout

• Title	'De Joodse Raad had geen invloed op de Duitse plannen’, zegt NIOD-onderzoeker
  Degree of recognition	National
  Media name/outlet	NRC
  Media type	Printed press
  Country/Territory	Netherlands
  Date	19/10/2022
  Description	Interview met Laurien Vastenhout over haar boek 'Between Community and Collaboration: "Jewish Councils" in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
  Producer/Author	Addie Schulte
  URL	https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/10/19/de-joodse-raad-had-geen-invloed-op-de-duitse-plannen-zegt-niod-onderzoeker-a4145745?t=1677163595
  Persons	Laurien Vastenhout

• Title	Joodse Raden tijdens de Duitse bezetting in Nederland, België en Frankrijk onder de loep
  Degree of recognition	International
  Media name/outlet	Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire, no. 135 (2022)
  Media type	Other
  Duration/Length/Size	p. 21-23
  Country/Territory	Belgium
  Date	10/10/2022
  Description	Interview met Laurien Vastenhout n.a.v. de Nederlandse vertaling van haar boek 'Between Community and Collaboration: "Jewish Councils" in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation' (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
  Producer/Author	Frédéric Crahay
  URL	https://doi.org/10.4000/temoigner.11400
  Persons	Laurien Vastenhout