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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...

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Miep 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,...

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Holocaust 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...

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The 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...

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“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...

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Dutch 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...

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Waterloo 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...

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National 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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