Worse Than Nazis: Jewish Collaborator Who Hunted Jews for the SS
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On 10 May 1940, German forces invaded the Netherlands, beginning an occupation that would transform the lives of the country’s Jewish population. As restrictions intensified and systematic deportations began in 1942, thousands went into hiding, relying on false identities, secret addresses and resistance networks. But German security services and their Dutch collaborators increasingly used informants to penetrate this hidden world. This documentary tells the extraordinary and troubling story of Rosalie Roozendaal, a young Jewish woman from Amsterdam whose experience of occupation would take her from hiding to collaboration and eventually to the Dutch resistance. In 1943, nineteen-year-old Rosalie was discovered after seeking refuge at an address connected to Ans van Dijk, a Jewish informant working with the authorities. Dutch police detective Gerrit Mozer threatened Rosalie with deportation and coerced her into becoming an informant. Posing as a member of the Jewish underground, she ga
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