Since the end of World War II, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halseema, a confession of a collective spiritual shortage of the city leader, apologized on Thursday for the role of the city's Jewish residents.
“The Government of Amsterdam is not, is not determined and not merciful when it is important,” he said. “And left the Jewish residents terrible.”
Mrs. Halseema apologized to a speech in Holocaust Schouwburg in a theater, which has many concentration camps in the Netherlands and Europe in the Netherlands and Europe.
Before the Holocaust, the Netherlands was 80,000 Jewish residents before Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Nazis deported and killed more than 60,000 of them with the help of local officials.
“Managers and officials would only want to cooperate with the occupying not only cold and formatistically,” said Mrs. Halseema. “This was an invaluable step in the prison, humiliation, deportation, 60,000 amsterdam Jews.”
The city government collaborated with the Nazis level; Municipal officials helped the deportation of the Jews and local police officers.
“Anti-Semitism was not brought by a German worker in the Netherlands,” said Halseema, “and this was always hated after his freedom – and still there.”
Ms. Halseem said that the city will invest 25 million euros (about $ 28.5 million) to encourage the appearance of Jewish lives and Judaism in the city. The new six-member committee will decide how to spend this funds.
“I didn't expect it,” said Keren Hirsch, Amsterdam Council, the investment. Jewish, “Jewish and Amsterdam said.”
Throughout the Netherlands, the Nazis are the highest percentage of the country's Jewish population, 75 percent of the Jewish population, the highest percent of Western Europe during World War II. Most of them lived in Amsterdam. The city's transit body and other institutions helped to produce 102,000 Jews and 220 Romani people, known as Roman and Sint from Amsterdam.
“You can't turn back the time, you can't cancel what the municipality is doing,” said Mrs. Hirsch. But he is important for me. “In this sense, words are important to me.”
Five years after the city's official apology, Five years later, Mark Rutte apologized to the government to protect the country's Jewish citizens during World War II.
“The last remaining survivors, I apologize on behalf of the government for the government's actions,” Mr Rutte said he was a memorial in 2020.
In general, the country spent the last few years of the past calculates the dark seasons. In 2023 King Willem-Alexander apologized for the role of his country in slave tradeApologies in a rare way for the historical injustice of the European monarch sitting. Mr Rutte He apologized on behalf of government months before.
In 2022, Mr. Rutte, the Indonesian army, which began in 1945, apologized to the people of Indonesia for the institutional violence of the Indonesian army. In 1992, the Dutch Defense Minister apologized for the role of the Netherlands the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys Srebrenita in Bosnia.