For centuries, the Netherlands proclaimed itself to be a welcoming and open land to members of the Jewish faith. Yet, during the Nazi Holocaust, the Dutch Jewry suffered the highest death rate throughout Western Europe (75 percent). This conundrum has been termed the“Dutch Paradox” by scholars, who have sought to unravel this paradox. In my thesis, I argue that the majority of Dutch citizens were passively anti-Semitic and that the Dutch both collaborated directly and indirectly with the German perpetrators. I consult both primary and secondary sources in order to show how the Dutch collaborated with the Germans to exterminate the Jewry,as well as how this showcases an insidious anti-Semitism on the part of the Dutch.