The municipality of Amsterdam and investigative journalist Griselda Molemans are working together on a monument to honor “comfort women” - women who the Japanese occupiers forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers during World War II. Japan is against monuments honoring “comfort women” because, according to the Japanese government, the women were not forced to work as sex slaves. I …
Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk passed away on Sunday at the age of 96. She was the last living staff member of a kindergarten for Jewish children opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam, through which 600 Jewish children were saved from the Nazis, NOS reports. The Hollandsche Schouwburg building, which had been a theater before the war, became a key processing center used …
