In het land van koekjes bij de thee, zoetigheid op brood en boter op het hoofd, vang je een overlevingspremie als het je gelukt is om terug te komen uit het concentratiekamp. Lees: Parool 1 september (2019) Boosheid over financiële regeling NS voor oorlogsslachtoffers: 'De NS...

The Jewish Federations of North America is working to build support for two important bills in Congress that impact the Holocaust Survivor community in the United States and asks (also) for (our) support The Never Again Education Act, introduced as S. 2085 in the Senate and H.R....

@Descendants would like to congratulate the Dutch Auschwitz Committee on the judge’s decision regarding the construction of the Monument of Names. Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, will finally be the site of the monument Daniel Libeskind designed for it. We realize it will not alleviate the...

@Descendants wensen het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité oprechte gelukwensen met de uitspraak van de rechter over de bouw van het Namenmonument. Dat hoofdstad Amsterdam eindelijk haar 'Libeskind' maar mag krijgen. We beseffen dat het over generaties uitstrekkende leed er niet door zal verzachten, maar dat het...

The text below was written by Herman F. de Vries. His Jewish grandfather, Levie De Vries, was murdered in Poland. In the Cohen Commission’s proposed plan, his descendants not only fail to be included, they are totally ignored.  Herman De Vries has explored the matter further...

The response of @Descendants to the 12-page advisory report by the Cohen Commission has finally been clearly formulated: https://commissietegemoetkomingns.nl/app/uploads/2019/06/Advies-Commissie-Individuele-Tegemoetkoming-Slachtoffers-WO-II-Transporten-NS.pdf?fbclid=IwAR38sNhSLu04upT2Ky-_cpej6oVJcoFfl3-Sl09lfgUfayL9F2HYru5ApIY. @Descendants is concerned about the fact that only three categories are included under the proposed compensation arrangement. The recommendations of the Cohen Commission do adhere to the...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyAKmQjhIdzug66BFr8bA-g?view_as=public&fbclid=IwAR35yFMVij5RHJQuKhWAbMxE-H6O-oCyQ7avWlcix5njzdxDUyJyI1kkYcM Preoccupied as we are with our own circumstances, we sometimes forget that there are Jews living in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine, and that they too are struggling with the heavy legacy of the Shoah. Their historical reality was...

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