Holocaust Memorial 2022, we see items on television and in the newspapers about the genocide committed against the Jews in World War Two. We Descendants are reading, watching and thinking about our parents and grandparents who had to go on after the war in...
Only 1 percentage of the Dutch Helped Jews in WW2 Only 1 percentage of the Dutch were willing to help Jews during the persecution and genocide of World War Two. Dr Johannes Houwink ten Cate cited this shocking percentage at a symposium organized by the Friends...
Open Letter from concerned Dutch people to their interim Cabinet The corona pandemic has revealed a great deal including the cancer of anti-Semitism plaguing Dutch society that has been simmering under the surface for a couple of years now. Three quarters of a century after...
For the past three weeks, Tswi Herschel has been giving lectures, including one for the FOZ (Friends of Zion) Museum in Jerusalem, , that streamed a lecture on Yom Hashoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day. The lecture certainly did not fail to come straight to the...
'The Polish claimant Jeremias Barth, referred to in Section 2, Part 1, was born in 1894 in Rzeszow, Poland. He came to our country in 1938 and is integrated here. During the war years, the claimant proved to be deserving of Dutch citizenship. Employed as...
A Zoom presentation by Sara de Vries at The Descendants can’t be boring and it isn’t, not for a second. “It made me laugh and it made me cry,” one of the people attending the session comments. “It was moving, it touched the heart.” A Zoom...
'It is important that the stories, sadness, frustration and loss are shared with the generations to come,' Tswi Herschel said at the Zoom meeting in the series organized by Descendants of the Shoah Holland. It was the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 and none of...
A Jew tip is what he called the offer made by the Jewish Social Work Agency in the Netherlands. MAROR (a Dutch acronym for Moral Responsibility for Stolen Property and the Restoration of Justice) negotiator and former Board member of the foundation of the same...
Could we have anticipated this, that Protestant churches would want to express apologies for the Holocaust? Quite honestly, we couldn’t have. Not that we are that interested in what is going on among the Protestants. After all, there are more than enough issues in our...
Research Institute NIOD Amsterdam Tosses Holocaust Education in the Garbage Bin On the website of the NIOD, the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, we were aghast to read that after fifteen years, educational specialist Maria van Beurden Cahn has been removed from the...