Dutch city renames square it had named for mayor who betrayed Jews to Nazis Jetze Tjalma, who was mayor of Hogeveen for 30 years, was recently shown to have been the first local mayor to hand over his city’s Jews, which he did voluntarily.
Dutch party equates COVID measures to Nazism on national Holocaust remembrance day An online banner eulogizes the freedom won from Germany in 1945, sparking a rebuke from the Jewish community.
Hitler as Haman? An Amsterdam museum holds a relic of that post-Holocaust Purim tradition. In the years that followed the Holocaust, survivors used to cast regularly the German mass murderer as Haman or his sidekick.