Before her suicide, a Dutch Holocaust scholar saw deep threats to her life’s work Evelien Gans' growing despair of rising anti-Semitism and historical revisionism did little to help her clinical depression.
Eviction of Dutch Jews from Nazi-ravaged synagogue brings back bitter memories The Great Synagogue of Deventer, which locals destroyed in 1941, was bought by a Turkish developer who kicked out the Jewish community amid a fight over his plans to turn the place into a restaurant.
Replica of Dutch synagogue destroyed in WWII opens near Jerusalem “The Germans tried to make this impossible, but here we are,” said a descendant of Jews who prayed at the Terborg shul in the eastern Netherlands.