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The Netherlands

Dutch national railways offer €5 million for Holocaust-era transport of Jewish victims

The Dutch national rail company said it would pay 5 million euros to Holocaust commemoration institutions, including the museums at three former concentration camps, Westerbork, Vught and Amersfoort.

Anti-slavery statue defaced in Amsterdam-area Jewish cemetery

A statue that is seen as commemorating the suffering of slaves was vandalized inside a Jewish cemetery near the Dutch capital.

Dutch-Jewish WWII hero who saved hundreds of children dies at 96

Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk, a Dutch-Jewish woman who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust, has died at the age of 96.

Dutch Jewish schools reopen, but worry coronavirus measures may compromise security

Following the reopening of schools in the Netherlands last month, social distancing and other coronavirus protocols have introduced dramatic changes that are likely to recur elsewhere when Jewish schools reopen.

Amsterdam to contribute $5.6 million for Holocaust museum makeover

The Amsterdam City Council has pledged nearly $5.6 million for building up the Dutch National Holocaust Museum.

77th anniversary of Vught child deportations commemorated

The annual commemoration ceremony marking the deportation of nearly 1,300 children from Herzogenbusch (Vught) concentration camp to Sobibor was held in the Netherlands.

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