For her sprawling book, journalist Nina Siegal read through hundreds of wartime diaries to portray difficult day-to-day lives of Dutch during Nazi Germany's five-year occupation
A new book explores how, by concealing them behind a false wall, Corrie ten Boom helped rescue hundreds of Jews and Dutch resisters from German clutches during World War II
In her new book, Dutch historian Laurien Vastenhout disproves long-held, often damaging assumptions about Holocaust-era 'Judenräte' in France, Belgium and the Netherlands
Hogeveen changes Mayor Tjalma Park to drop reference to municipal leader who was the first in Nazi-occupied Netherlands to hand over a list of local Jews, following German invasion
Comparisons have been proliferating in recent months throughout Europe and beyond, including with the wearing of yellow stars at protests against virus restrictions
Tamarah Benima says 'those in power all had the best of intentions. Also when they declared Jews a danger to public health'; Dutch Jewish groups condemn 'offensive comparisons'
Monikers like Aron and Thirza are common in the Netherlands and almost nonexistent in neighboring Belgium. They may correlate with locals' positive associations with Judaism
If no new light can be shed on origins, pieces likely to be handed over to Jewish communities, museums; until now, history of objects only checked if a claim was filed
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