So-called converts of Jewish origin were still deported and killed

Evidence

In Echt, they found Edith and Rosa. The two women were taken, along with many other converts of Jewish origin, to a transit camp and then to the camp of Westerbork. Early in August, they were sent on to Auschwitz. On the way, their train passed through their home town of Wrocław. A postal employee working at the station recalled seeing a train paused there for a while; a woman in a Carmelite habit looked out and said that this was her home town. Red Cross records show the two sisters arriving at Auschwitz on 7 August 1942. On 9 August, they were murdered in the Birkenau gas chamber. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 444

Categorization

• XREF: The postal worker’s glimpse echoes the train-passing-home scene in some Holocaust memoirs; also the broader theme of individual witness against systemic atrocity. — connects to: Jewish converts retained a stigma that Muslim converts did not carry — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 539; Medical-murder conspiracies targeted Jewish converts far more than Muslim converts — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 419; Conversion reinforced rather than reduced antisemitic suspicion of Jews — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1667 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious conversion confirmed rather than dispelled antisemitic suspicion #corroborates (0.90)
• Even atheist and converted Jewish revolutionaries were doubly targeted by anti-Semitism #corroborates (0.88) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 948
• Conversion reinforced rather than reduced antisemitic suspicion of Jews #corroborates (0.85) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1667
• Tsarist police racialized Jews as revolutionary regardless of conversion #corroborates (0.80) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 543
• Conversion stopped shielding converted Jews from discrimination by the late fourteenth century. #exemplifies (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 116
• Jewish converts retained a stigma that Muslim converts did not carry #corroborates (0.75) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 539
• Medical-murder conspiracies targeted Jewish converts far more than Muslim converts #corroborates (0.72) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 419
• Hatred of Jews became detached from any specific Jewish deeds #corroborates (0.72)