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Then-Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag (right) meets Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki in The Hague, May 15, 2019. Credit: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dutch minister who financed Palestinian terror to speak at Kristallnacht commemoration

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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 Moshe Yitzchak Vorst. Source: YouTube.

Rabbi who founded Chabad in the Netherlands dies at age 85

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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....
Jewish Children’s Monument, with names of 400 Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, at the site of a former Jewish school in The Hague. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

Dutch survey: 10% of history teachers have Holocaust-denying students

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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...
“A Small Light,” produced by ABC Signature and Keshet Studios for National Geographic, will stream on Disney+ and Hulu. Credit: Courtesy.

Miep Gies and the quest for a lasting Holocaust lesson

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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...
Jan and Miep Gies, Oct. 8, 1980. Credit: Marcel Antonisse/Anefo, National Archive via Wikimedia Commons.

‘A Small Light’ shines on Miep Gies, who kept Frank family hidden in Amsterdam

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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...
An image of Jewish life at the start of World War II and the Holocaust. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Artifact from World War II Jewish hideout goes on display in Amsterdam

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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

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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...
HaCarmel kosher restaurant in Amsterdam. Credit: Monitoring Anti-Semitism Worldwide.

Syrian man smashes windows of kosher restaurant in Amsterdam for second time

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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...
The city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, June 1, 2014. Photo: Alfredo Borba via Wikimedia Commons.

Fake bomb planted at kosher restaurant in Amsterdam

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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,...

יונגע ייִדישיסטן פֿאַרברענגען אַ סוף־וואָך אין אַמסטערדאַם

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אין מײַ 2019 האָט „די ייִדישע שטוב לאָנדאָן‟ — אַ גרופּע יונגע ייִדישיסטן וואָס פֿירן דורך ייִדישע אונטערנעמונגען אין דער ענגלישער קרוינשטאָט — אָנגעהױבן אַן אייגנאַרטיקן פּראָיעקט צו פֿאַרשטאַרקן די סאָציאַלע און קולטורעלע נעץ...