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Dutch National Archives (courtesy)
When historians seek to research what Dutch citizens did during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands, they have access to a stack of files that’s taller than the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Twenty years ago, those files of the “Central Archive of Special Jurisdiction” were deposited at the Dutch National Archives in The Hague. Suddenly, 300,000 case files on Dutch citizens suspected of having collaborated with Nazis were made available to everyone.
“There are family members who want to see the file of their father or mother, but also historians and other academics,” said Bas Kortholt, a Dutch historian and delegate to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York, November 3, 2020. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
Otto Hermann Kahn s estate from the air (public domain)
Otto Hermann Kahn at the Morristown Field Club on September 25, 1913 (public domain via wikipedia)
Oheka Castle before restoration in the 1980s (courtesy)
HUNTINGTON, New York Social clubs in New Jersey rejected Otto Hermann Kahn from membership for being Jewish in the early 1900s. So the financier decided to build his own castle and golf course atop the highest point of Long Island’s Gold Coast.
Completed in time for the wedding of Kahn’s daughter Maud in 1920, Oheka an acronym for