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[74] [75] The Amsterdam police said they had prevented other disturbances, and that by 3.30am everything in the city had quietened down. [60] On Wednesday evening after the incident at the casino and throughout Thursday, calls for attacks on Israeli supporters, including a call for a "Jew hunt", were shared in Snapchat, Telegram, and WhatsApp ...
The bounty paid to Henneicke Column members for each captured Jew was 7.50 guilders (equivalent to about US $4.75). The group, consisting of 18 core members, disbanded on October 1, 1943. However, the Column’s leaders continued working for Hausraterfassungsstelle (Household property registration office), tracking down hidden Jewish property.
The 1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office was an attempt by members of the Dutch resistance to destroy the Amsterdam civil registry (bevolkingsregister), in order to prevent the German occupiers from identifying Jews and others marked for persecution, arrest or forced labour. The March 1943 assault was only partially successful ...
It commemorates the approximately 102,000 Jewish victims from the Netherlands who were arrested by the Nazi regime during the German occupation of the country (1940-1945), deported and mostly murdered in the Auschwitz and Sobibor death camps, as well as 220 Roma and Sinti victims.
Jews began settling in the Netherlands from the 17th century, where they benefited from the Dutch tradition of religious tolerance, especially in Amsterdam. In 1796 and 1834, Jewish emancipation laws granted full citizenship to Dutch Jews. From the late nineteenth century until the 1930s, Dutch Jews became increasingly secularised and ...
Most Dutch Jews live in the major cities in the west of the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht); some 44% of all Dutch Jews live in Amsterdam, which is considered the centre of Jewish life in the country. In 2000, 20% of the Jewish-Dutch population was 65 years or older; birth rates among Jews were low.
Willem Johan Cornelis Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II.He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo.
The museum was inaugurated on March 10, 2024 by the Dutch monarch, Willem-Alexander.In his opening speech the king stated that the museum "brings to life the stories of people who were isolated from the rest of Dutch society, robbed of their rights, denied legal protection, rounded up, imprisoned, separated from their loved ones and murdered," identifying the root cause as antisemitism.