There’s this fascinating map that you ... Jews were living. And Amsterdam was such an assimilated and integrated city that this wasn’t just in the so called Jewish quarter, it was all over ...

Speaking at an event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said that civil servants in Amsterdam played an active role in the murder of some thousands of Jewish ...

And third, she should take a portion of the $28-million that she has allotted for “promoting Jewish life” in Amsterdam and use it to pay restitution to the pogrom victims. These three steps ...

“The Amsterdam government, when it came down to it, was not heroic, not determined and not merciful. And it let its Jewish residents down terribly,” said Halsema. “On behalf of the city ...

By Claire Moses Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city’s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the ...

Speaking at an event marking Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mayor Femke Halsema said that civil servants in Amsterdam played an active role in the murder of some thousands of Jewish ...

even going to Amsterdam to carefully study biblical paintings by Rembrandt and El Greco and to examine the extremes in religious painting. He walked the streets of the city’s Jewish quarter to ...

In a tweet, Waserlauf wrote: "I grew up in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, on the ruins of the historic 'Tiferet Yisrael' synagogue. Words cannot describe the emotion I felt when I first entered ...

His first time in Israel was 1948. Born and raised in the mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakesh, my father left Morocco for Paris in 1946. On May 14, 1948 – the day of Israel’s declaration of ...

Guests can also discover the Bank van Lening, Amsterdam’s oldest operating bank. In addition to the self-guided Minor Hotels Walking Tour, Avani Museum Quarter Amsterdam, which opened last year ...

The Netherlands celebrates 80 years since the end of World War II on May 4 and 5. The war may have ended in 1945, but there ...