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A Star of David with the Dutch word for 'Jew', as worn during the Second World War. (Photo: US Holocaust Museum)
January 25, 2023, 8:24 am
Shocking survey finds ‘significant gaps’ in Holocaust knowledge in the Netherlands
Almost one in four Dutch Millennials and Gen Z believe the Holocaust is a myth, or that it happened but the number of Jews who were killed has been greatly exaggerated.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
A Star of David with the Dutch word for 'Jew', as worn during the Second World War. (Photo: US Holocaust Museum)
February 15, 2022, 5:50 pm
Dutch universities seek delay on request to reveal ‘Israeli and Jewish connections’
The Netherlands' chief rabbi had said the Rights Forum's freedom of information request 'reeks of antisemitism'
By Michael Daventry
February 1, 2022, 5:06 pm
Book identifying Jewish man who ‘betrayed Anne Frank’ withdrawn after outrage
The Dutch publisher stops printing new copies of The Betrayal of Anne Frank, saying it had not been able to review the text first
By Michael Daventry and JTA
Anne Frank
January 17, 2022, 11:15 am
Anne Frank was betrayed to the Nazis by a Jewish local, research team finds
A six-year investigation by a team including historians and criminologists identifies Arnold van den Bergh as the surprise suspect
By Michael Daventry
October 11, 2021, 2:32 pm
Jewish names on-trend for Dutch non-Jews
Among the most common Dutch boys’ names of recent years have been Levi and Ezra, Simon and David
September 27, 2021, 11:45 am
Yellow stars on show at Dutch protest against new coronavirus rules
One banner at a demonstration this weekend read: ‘Have they died for nothing?’
By Michael Daventry and Reuters
Men wear Nazi uniforms during a COVID-19 protest in the Netherlands city of Urk, Sept. 10, 2021. ("Hart van Nederland") via JTA
September 18, 2021, 9:13 am
At Covid protest, men dressed as Nazis ‘arrest’ participant wearing yellow star
Incident in Urk, near Amsterdam, was the latest among the hundreds of rallies worldwide in which protesters have drawn parallels between Nazi persecution and Covid restrictions
By JTA
Bosnia’s Sead Kolasinac, front, and Israel’'s Eran Zahavi during a Euro 2016 soccer qualifying group B match in Haifa, Israel, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
May 12, 2021, 7:42 pm
Israeli football star Eran Zehavi’s family robbed at gunpoint in Amsterdam home
Two people broke into his house in the Netherlands threatening his family and stealing his possessions
By JTA
Newspaper (Photo by AbsolutVision on Unsplash)
April 21, 2021, 4:38 pm
Dutch daily apologises for drawing Jewish pollster as a puppet master
Editor of De Volkskrant said the image and trope 'recall too many memories of antisemitic caricatures of the Nazi period and therefore should never have been published'
By JTA
Ajax supporters in the stadium (Wikipedia/Author Onderwijsgek/Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
April 19, 2021, 2:31 pm
Dutch football fans chant ‘Hamas, Jews to the gas’ before match against Ajax
Supporters of Vitesse chant antisemitic slogans against Amsterdam-based side which has historical links to the Jewish community
By JTA
A surveillance camera can be seen next to a Star of David (Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa)
April 15, 2021, 3:46 pm
Netherlands’ antisemitism tally drops by 25 percent due to Covid-19 lockdowns
Annual report by the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel released Wednesday counted 135 incidents last year compared to 182 cases in 2019
By JTA
Hans Achterhuis (Wikipedia/ Author Vysotsky / Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0))
April 11, 2021, 10:06 am
Dutch philosopher: Diaspora a ‘blessing’ as it stopped Jews from having power
Hans Achterhuis, the first recipient of the prestigious and royally recognised title of “thinker of the Fatherland,” said the phenomenon prevents 'religiously motivated violence'
By JTA
Insayno sings in a video clip from 2013 in Amsterdam. (Screen shot from YouTube via JTA)
October 1, 2020, 9:45 am
City rescinds honour for rapper who said Shoah is ‘cover up for dumb sheep’
Darryl Danchelo Osenga will no longer be poet of the Dutch city of Haarlem after outrage at song downplaying the Holocaust and saying it was a 'joke' compared to slavery
By JTA
Kleine Houtstraat street in Haarlem, Netherlands. (Wikipedia/Author Marek Ślusarczyk (Tupungato) Photo gallery/ www.microstock.pl/Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0))
September 26, 2020, 4:11 pm
Dutch city names resident poet who called Shoah a ‘cover-up for dumb sheep’
City of Haarlem announced Darryl Danchelo Osenga as city poet sparking protests from Dutch activists
By JTA
An empty room at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, where the diarist and her family hid for two years during the Holocaust.
July 10, 2020, 9:39 am
Amsterdam gets to know Anne Frank
In the tourist-free city, locals are finally seeing the Anne Frank House under Covid-19 restrictions
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
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