The Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam will host the annual commemoration of Kristallnacht on Thursday. The Nazis attacked Jewish people and destroyed their buildings and possessions throughout all of Germany on the evening of 9 November, leading into 10 November 1938. The commemoration starts at 6:30 p.m. and is being organized by the Centraal Joods Overleg, a coalition of Jewish organizations. …
Amsterdam is removing the visible security around Jewish institutions in the city, Ronny Naftaniel of the Central Jewish Consultation confirmed to NOS after a report in De Telegraaf. The Jewish organizations in the city received a letter from the municipality stating that the Koninklijke Marechaussee, a policing force that works as part of the Dutch military, will protect the buildings …
FvD leader Thierry Baudet removed four posts in which he compared the Cabinet's coronavirus policy with the Holocaust from social media, as per a ruling by the court of Amsterdam. According to Baudet, the Amsterdam court made "a totally hallucinatory ruling" restricting his freedom of expression. In addition to ordering Baudet to remove the posts or face a penalty of …
In the coming days, Kristallnacht will be commemorated in various places in the country. During the night from November 9 to 10, 1938, Nazis attacked over thousands of synagogues and shops of Jews all over Germany and killed over one hundred Jewish people. The national commemoration of the Kristallnacht is in Amsterdam, organized by the Central Jewish Consultation. The current …
Art stolen from Dutch Jews during the Second World War will be returned to the Jewish community unless their original owners and descendants can be determined, the government announced. The pieces we cannot return and for which we can no longer find relatives of the rightful owners will be returned to the Jewish community," Education Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven told …
