07 Jul

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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...

02 Jul

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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...

06 Jun

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She is essentially very much a moderate, Sharon, the daughter of a mother born just after World War Two. Sweet by nature, always friendly, but never lets her guard down. A real second generation girl. At the Yad Vashem School of Education in Israel, she...

15 May

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More than forty years of genealogy that means that you have an assignment, a self-imposed task that must be performed. With the knowledge that seven family members committed suicide at the start of the Second World War and with an endless list of murdered family...

19 Apr

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The Descendants of the SHOAH Holland find the masking of photos at the exhibition about the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands a GOTSPE. The exhibition, created by the famous NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Amsterdam) currently runs at the National...

09 Apr

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Robin Ruizendaal, director of a puppet theater museum in Taipei (Taiwan), visited the exhibition In Memoriam in Amsterdam.  Struck by the personal stories of murdered Jewish, Roma and Sinti children, he was especially taken by little Celine de Vries, nicknamed Lieneke, murdered in extermination camp...

05 Apr

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Michael Jacobs regularly demonstrates at the Dam-square to expose anti-Semitism and hate speech in the Netherlands. On April 5, just prior to the Shabbat, the Mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema sent Jacobs a letter saying that Jacobs is disturbing the public order with his one-man...

01 Mar

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Michael Jacobs’ weekly protests against antisemitism at the National monument on the Dam-square (Amsterdam).Not only several Dutch, but also European politicians recognize the seriousness of the situation. Although many people still seem to find it's hard to recognize and don’t understand its implications: the beast...

25 Nov

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The tireless Dutch Jewish activist Michael Jacobs was publicly spat at, on the Dam square in Amsterdam, November 25 2018. Jacobs stood, with the Israeli flag around his shoulders, across the street from someone who loudly announced that Israel should be destroyed. The police did...

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