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Holland Has 23,000 Jews, Including Children of Mixed Parentage

July 8, 1958
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There are some 23,000 Jews in Holland, including Jews of mixed parentage, a survey released by the Dutch Ashkenazi Jewish community revealed today. There were about 160,000 Jews in Holland before the war.

The report, complete as of the end of 1957, discloses that in Amsterdam 10,500 Jews are affiliated with the Ashkenazi community as compared to 100,000 before World War II. In The Hague there are 2,400 members of the community as against a pre-war enrollment of 16,000, while at Rotterdam there are 700 Jews of a pre-war total of 12,000. Utrecht has only 430 Jews.

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