Rosh Lashonah services held in synagogues throughout Holland for the first time since the liberation of the country from the Germans presented a gloomy picture of Jewish survival in the Netherlands. In the Hague, where 17,000 Jews lived before the war, only 1,500 survived to attend the New Year services.
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