Holocaust in the Netherlands

The Dock Worker, a statue that stands in front of the Portuguese synagogue, was inaugurated in 1952 to commemorate the participants of the 1941 February Strike in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

How the 1941 Dutch February Strike turbocharged a growing resistance movement in Nazi Europe

Eighty years ago, Amsterdam went silent in solidarity with Jews. But over time, the country’s positive Holocaust narrative has faltered.

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The lost Torah scroll of Dordrecht, the Netherlands, measures 45 yards in lengths. (Courtesy of NIG)

In Holland, a Torah scroll returns to Jewish hands 80 years after it was hidden from the Nazis

The artifact was thought to have been lost along with the community that had used it.

Church bells toll in Nieuwlande, the Netherlands on Jan. 25, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

This Dutch village is finally ready to tell its unique Holocaust rescue story

Nieuwlande, where hundreds of Jews hid with help from the entire non-Jewish population, has opened a museum about its unique acts of resistance.

The Jewish Council of Amsterdam, the Netherlands during World War II. (Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam)

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In Amsterdam, the personal card of every Holocaust victim returns to Jewish hands

The Amsterdam building that used to house the Reform Seminary and children's detainment facility where Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk helped saved hundreds of Jewish children. (Luuk Kramer/Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam)

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Historical novel on Holland’s largest Holocaust rescue operation slammed for ‘awful’ errors

Jacqueline van Maarsen smiles as she examines the first memorial brick in the Names Monument of Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Sept. 23. (Courtesy of Holocaust Names Monument Netherlands.)

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Friend of Anne Frank lays first stone of Amsterdam’s newest Holocaust monument

Insayno sings in a video clip from 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Insayno/YouTube)

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Dutch city names as its resident poet a rapper who called the Holocaust a ‘cover-up for dumb sheep’

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Dutch-Jewish resistance fighter whose factory was used to make yellow stars dies at 98

A visitor examines pencill marks measuring the grwoth of Anne and Margot Frank in what used to be their parents' room at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 24, 2016. (Photo Collection Anne Frank House)

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With no tourists in Amsterdam, locals are discovering the Anne Frank House

The Amsterdam building that used to house the Reform Seminary and children's detainment facility where Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk helped saved hundreds of Jewish children. (Luuk Kramer/Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam)

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Dutch-Jewish WWII hero Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk, who saved hundreds of children, dies at 96

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