Tag: Amsterdam
‘Occupied City’ reveals Amsterdam sites during Nazi German control
The British filmmaker Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, his wife and creative partner, described their views on history and European antisemitism in a recent interview discussing their new documentary, “Occupied City.”
Disputing the idea that antisemitism has...
Dutch minister who financed Palestinian terror to speak at Kristallnacht commemoration
Jewish communal leaders in the Netherlands are facing tough questions after inviting to the country's annual Kristallnacht commemoration a government minister who sent millions of euros to a terror-linked Palestinian nonprofit.
Dutch Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag, who...
Rabbi who founded Chabad in the Netherlands dies at age 85
Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak (Ies) Vorst, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the Netherlands, died on Sept. 14 at the age of 85.
Vorst was born in 1938, the son of the chief rabbi of Rotterdam....
Dutch survey: 10% of history teachers have Holocaust-denying students
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, which is nearly 65 years old, is consistently one of the most visited museums in the Netherlands. Yet public-school teachers report an alarming rate of Holocaust denial among...
Miep Gies and the quest for a lasting Holocaust lesson
There is something about the story of the eight Jews who spent more than two years hiding in the secret annex on Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam that is irresistible to readers, as well as...
‘A Small Light’ shines on Miep Gies, who kept Frank family hidden in Amsterdam
National Geographic released the trailer from the upcoming eight-part limited series “A Small Light,” produced by ABC Signature and Keshet Studios. It will have a multi-network launch on May 1 at 9 p.m. EST...
Artifact from World War II Jewish hideout goes on display in Amsterdam
A round mantelpiece clock—the only remaining item from a Jewish hideout during World War II—will go on display with other Holocaust artifacts at Amsterdam’s Dutch Resistance Museum later this year, reported The Guardian.
Along with family...
July 27, 1656: Baruch Spinoza Was Excommunicated
Bento de Spinoza was a young merchant in Amsterdam, one of many Sephardic Jews in that city involved in overseas trade in the early 1650s. The specialty of his family’s firm, which he and his brother Gabriel had been...
Syrian man smashes windows of kosher restaurant in Amsterdam for second time
A Syrian man was arrested on Friday for smashing the windows of a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam—the second time he has done so.
Saleh Ali, 31, was subdued with pepper spray by officers after he...
Fake bomb planted at kosher restaurant in Amsterdam
A fake bomb was placed at the entrance of an Israeli-owned kosher restaurant in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
The “bomb,” a cardboard box with masking tape fastening wires and an electric trigger mechanism to the top,...