Holocaust in the Netherlands

Kandinsky painting returned to Jewish family as Netherlands shifts approach to looted art

The decision reverses a 2018 ruling against the descendants of Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann, who died in Auschwitz.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 28, 2022 8:00 am

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Costco promotes controversial Anne Frank book, as Dutch publisher halts distribution

Critics challenge a book’s assertion that a fellow Jew betrayed the young diarist’s family.

February 9, 2022 2:49 pm

The Betrayal of Anne Frank

Dutch publisher stops printing copies of book alleging a Jew betrayed Anne Frank

The publisher apologized for not reviewing the claims in the book more critically.

January 31, 2022 1:35 pm

Dutch celebrity lawyer and Holocaust survivor Max Moszkowicz dies at 95

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 28, 2022 3:36 pm

Gideon Italiaander, right, bargains with a customer at his shop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Oct. 11, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Amsterdam, a Jewish merchant channels the spirit of a fabled pre-Holocaust flea market

By Cnaan Liphshiz October 27, 2021 11:52 am

Operators prepare the Holocaust Memorial of Names for its opening in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Sept. 2, 2021. (Ramon van Flymen / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands Out via Getty Images)

Amsterdam’s latest Holocaust memorial features the names of 102,000 victims

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 20, 2021 12:06 am

Men wear Nazi uniform during a COVID-19 protest in Urk, the Netherlands on Sept. 10, 2021. Hart van Nederland

At Dutch COVID protest, men dressed as Nazis make mock arrest of participant wearing yellow star

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 14, 2021 12:12 pm

Students explore Camp Amersfoort in the NEtherlands on April 19, 2021. (Mike Bink/National Monument Kamp Amersfoort)

Museum opens at one of Holland’s most infamous Nazi camps

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 22, 2021 11:07 am

The son of JTA's Europe correspondent pictures here when he was nearing his 2nd birthday, examines a memorial cobblestone for murdered Dutch Jews in Heerlen, the Netherlands on July 29, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Growing up in Anne Frank’s shadow, my kids have known about the Holocaust since before they could speak

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 8, 2021 2:21 pm

Puppets of Mordechai and Hitler made by Nechama Mayer-Hirsch in 1951. (Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam)

Hitler as Haman? An Amsterdam museum holds a relic of that post-Holocaust Purim tradition.

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 5:51 pm

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