Four prisoners were found dead in the Zaanstad Judicial Complex last month. Three men took their own lives, and a woman died of natural causes, insiders told NH Nieuws. The four people died in various departments within the Netherland’s largest prison in Westzaan, director Obe Veldman confirmed to the newspaper.
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An estimated almost 1.1 million Netherlands residents who are still alive today experienced the liberation in 1945. That amounts to 6.2 percent of the population, according to an ANP analysis of the most recently available Statistics Netherlands population figures for 2022.
From Saturday, houses in 18 cities can be visited where Jews or members of the resistance lived and worked before, during and just after the Second World War. Stories of the residents are shared in the houses, which look back on the resistance and Jewish life during the war. The memorial program Open Jewish Houses - Houses of Resistance will last until May 5.