Tag: Netherlands
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....
Jewish resistance hero identified 80 years after execution by Nazis
Dutch forensic investigators have identified the remains of a man executed by the Nazis in the Netherlands eight decades ago as that of a Jewish resistance hero after locating a cousin in Australia, investigators...
Dutch Supreme Court: Gantz immune from 2014 ‘war crimes’ suit
The Netherlands' highest court ruled on Friday that former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was immune from civil prosecution over the deaths of six Palestinians in an airstrike undertaken by the Israel Defense Forces...
Dutch arrest father, daughter for sending millions to Hamas
Dutch investigators arrested a father and daughter last week for “large-scale financing” of Hamas in breach of E.U. sanctions, prosecutors said Monday.
The man, 55, and his daughter, 25, from the town of Leidschendam near...
On ‘Remembrance Day,’ Zelenskyy asks Dutch to mourn dead Ukrainians
On a visit to the Netherlands on the country’s Remembrance Day—held annually on May 4 at 8 p.m. to commemorate soldiers and civilians who died in World War II, and in other wars and peacekeeping...
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...
Dutch government rejects Amnesty’s apartheid report
The government of the Netherlands has rejected Amnesty International’s report on Feb. 1 accusing Israel of apartheid. “The cabinet does not agree with Amnesty’s conclusion that there is apartheid in Israel or the territories...
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...
Memorial honoring 102,000 Dutch victims of Holocaust opens in Amsterdam
A new memorial in Amsterdam’s Jewish Cultural Quarter pays tribute to the more than 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust, the Associated Press reported.
The National Holocaust Memorial of Names, which was unveiled on Sunday, is comprised of...