Holocaust in the Netherlands

‘Game of Thrones’ star Carice van Houten to make Holocaust film on female Jewish rescuers

The actress who portrayed Melisandre in the beloved series may end up portraying one of two sisters who risked their lives to hide those in peril.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 13, 2019 10:00 am

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Berendina Eman, left, walking with Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 2, 2015. (Courtesy of the Dutch Embassy in the United States)

Berendina Eman, a Dutch rescuer of Jews and concentration camp survivor, dies at 99

Eman fought in the resistance with her fiance, whom the Nazis murdered, and saved the lives of dozens of Jews.

September 6, 2019 12:27 pm

A Jewish family sold this Kandinsky painting to survive the Nazis. Amsterdam is keeping it anyway.

Holland believes the public has a right to access prized artworks, and some Holocaust restitution claimants are crying foul.

July 18, 2019 4:38 pm

Dutch railways to compensate Holocaust survivors it helped transport

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 26, 2019 1:56 pm

Dutch senator apologizes for saying Jews went ‘like lambs’ to gas chambers

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 13, 2019 10:44 am

Jews went like ‘meek lambs to gas chambers,’ new Dutch senator says

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 11, 2019 4:19 pm

Claiming threats of violence by Jews, Dutch Holocaust museum nixes event about Syrian refugees

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 30, 2019 6:54 am

Bodies of murdered Jews from Hungary being burned at Auwschwitz in 1944. (Alberto Errera/Auschwitz Memorial and Museum)

Dutch Holocaust museum leaves out graphic Auschwitz pictures from exhibition

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 22, 2019 8:05 am

Heidi Fishman holding up an op-ed she wrote about her family's rescue from the Holocaust using a Paraguayan passport. Courtesy of Heidi Fishman

Researchers unlock the mystery of Polish diplomats who rescued Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 15, 2019 1:43 pm

Daughter of survivors rejects Holocaust museum’s plan to mark modern-day refugees

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 25, 2019 12:59 pm

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