Auschwitz

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin shaking hands with Dutch King Willem-Alexander at the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, 22 January 2020

Dutch king tours Israel’s Yad Vashem before Holocaust Remembrance Day

Jan 23 '20 11:50
Politics

King Willem-Alexander is currently in Jerusalem, at the invitation of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, for the World Holocaust Forum. On Thursday, the Dutch King will visit the Yad Vashem museum and the Dutch care home Beth Juliana, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day next week.

Yad Vashem is the official Israeli memorial center for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The institute documents and commemorates the fates of European Jews during the Second World War and honors the people who worked to help the Jews at the time.

Flowers left at the Spiegelmonument in Amsterdam during the Holocaust commemoration, 28 Jan 2018

Concerns over rising Antisemitism raised at Holocaust commemoration in Amsterdam

Jan 29 '18 10:14
Politics

The Holocaust was commemorated in Amsterdam on Sunday with a silent march, a ceremony and the laying of wreaths in Wertheimpark. During the ceremony, several speakers raised concerns about increasing anti-Semitism in the Netherlands and the world, NOS reports.

Mark Rutte and Lodewijk Asscher lay flowers at the Never Again Auschwitz monument in Amsterdam, 29 Jan 2017

Dutch PM, Amsterdam Mayor speak at Holocaust commemoration

Jan 30 '17 11:35
CrimePolitics

On Sunday Amsterdam remembered the Holocaust, the Nazi persecution of Jews in World War II, with a silent march from city hall to Wiertheimpark, where a commemoration was held. Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan both spoke at the commemoration, ANP reports.

Rutte and Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher together lay a wreath ath the monument mirror Never Again Auschwitz on behalf of the government.

no image

Councilor could face community service for tweet calling Prosecutor a Nazi

Aug 9 '16 12:30
Crime

The Public Prosecutor demanded 40 hours of community service against Heerlen city councilor Christian Petermann for a post on Twitter in which he compares prosecutor Anja Janssen-De Boer to a Nazi

800px-Westerbork-monument2

Holocaust monument artist dead at 88

Jan 27 '15 08:13
Art

Artist Ralph Prins died at the age of 88 yesterday. One of his best known works is the design for National Monument Kamp Westerbork, which was unveiled by Queen Juliana in 1970.

Auschwitzherdenking1

National Holocaust remembrance held in Amsterdam

Jan 25 '15 12:23
Top Stories

Civic leaders in the Netherlands met in Amsterdam Sunday to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. An estimated 1.1 million people died at the site in Poland, ground which the Red Army took control of on January 27, 1945.

Auschwitz II - Birkenau

Dutch King, Queen, PM Rutte to attend Auschwitz liberation ceremony

Jan 16 '15 14:39
Politics

January 27 marks the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of prisoners from the Nazi’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and extermination facility. Dutch King Willem-Alexander, his wife, Queen Máxima and Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte will travel to Poland for a ceremony marking the anniversary, the government confirms in a statement.

Subscribe to