Recently discovered Jewish interior will not be wrecked for now
A uniquely preserved WW II Jewish living room in Amsterdam will stay intact a little bit longer. The room which we wrote about last week, was discovered last year by then-student Alexander Westra...
View ArticleMiep Gies turned 100
Miep Gies, the woman who was important in Anne Frank’s life and pivotal in what we now know about Anne Frank turned 100 yesterday. In 1942, when the Frank family looked for a place to hide, Miep Gies,...
View ArticleHolocaust survivor finally to receive Dutch apologies
Selma Wijnberg (87) was the only Dutch survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Sobibor, but the Dutch government once almost made sure that even she would not have had that distinction. Wijnberg...
View ArticleThe other ‘Anne Frank’ houses
The Anne Frank House is called Het Achterhuis in Dutch, the apartment in the back, simply because that is what it was. The andereachterhuizen.nl website has collected 30 stories of other hiding places...
View Article“Amsterdam, give Holocaust survivors their money back!”, says NIOD
What should a city do when its citizens survive the death camps and arrive home to find all their possessions stolen, even their homes (where now Nazi collaborators live)? With possible answers ranging...
View ArticleDutch professor’s past changes view on Holocaust
Dutch-American Saskia Sassen, 67, is a professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York City whose Nazi collaborator father is part of a recently translated book from German into English...
View ArticleWaterloo Square in Amsterdam turns 130
On of my first visits to Amsterdam as a child we went to Waterloo Square, and what an impression it left on me. You could buy everything at the daily flea market. Pins and suits and sabres and boat...
View ArticleNational holocaust monument becomes glass house
The green and white wooden house is one of the last remaining buildings at Kamp Westerbork, a WWII Nazi transit camp in Hooghalen, Drenthe where Dutch Jews, Sinti and Romani stayed and were readied...
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