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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A serious antisemitic incident occurred this week at a bowling alley in the center of Antwerp when five young Jewish men wearing kippahs suffered discriminatory treatment from the employees of the ...

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 ...

Early on Easter morning, the Historic French Quarter Easter Parade participants ... the chairs of the 2025 Annual Event of the Jewish Endowment Foundation of Louisiana, extended the program ...

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 ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The mayor of Amsterdam apologized Thursday for the role the Dutch capital played in the persecution of its Jewish citizens during World War II, saying the government at the time “let ...

Dutch Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David with the word JOOD on their clothing and to move to the Jewish quarter. This was the same year that rumors of the mistreatment of European ...