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Camp Amersfoort played a more significant role in the persecution and extermination of Jews in the Second World War than previously thought. The penal camp is known as a transit camp for forced laborers and detention for resistance fighters. But new research by historian Amanda Kluveld of Maastricht University showed that Camp Amersfoort was a full-blown Holocaust camp, Trouw reports. ....
People who commit anti-Semitic offenses should be sentenced to an educational visit to the National Holocaust Museum or a Second World War concentration camp, according to the VVD and D66. Such punishments are already possible under Dutch law but are rarely imposed. The two parties want the Justice Minister to investigate why, RTL Nieuws reports. ....
Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder, the former secret church on the Oudezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, has been declared a European heritage site. The European Commission called the church a symbol of 17th-century freedom of conscience and religion in Europe, Parool reported. ....
The incredible story of the Jewish survivor, Rivka Kahana Weissberg, as she told it to Phileleftheros and as reflected in her book Shining in the Dark, where she describes the shocking journey of her parents and her rescue as a child from the hands of the Nazis. She was born in 1943 in the heart of ....
A new musical production based on Anne Frank's diary has hit the stage in The Netherlands, with the producer and star convinced the story needs telling now more than ever."It's the first production where music is used to tell the story. ....