They studied everyone they came upon with a cool glance, wary, checking for what they considered to be Jewish features—dark hair, dark eyes, individuals they thought were shifty and racially inferior. In the neighborhood, everyone did their best to avoid the soldiers; they crossed the street so they wouldn’t be asked any questions. People whispered that lists had already been drawn up by the Germans with the names of Dutch Jews to arrest, from the radicals to the wealthy to writers and teachers.
