{"id":289583,"date":"2025-04-24T20:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/amsterdams-mayor-apologizes-for-citys-role-in-the-holocaust\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T20:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:46:15","slug":"amsterdams-mayor-apologizes-for-citys-role-in-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/amsterdams-mayor-apologizes-for-citys-role-in-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam\u2019s Mayor Apologizes for City\u2019s Role in the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city\u2019s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the Holocaust, in a rare acknowledgment of a collective moral failure by a city leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmsterdam\u2019s\u2019 government was, when it mattered, not heroic, not determined and not merciful,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it horribly abandoned its Jewish residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Halsema issued the apology in a speech at a Holocaust commemoration at the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a theater that the Nazis turned into a major deportation center from which many of Amsterdam\u2019s Jews were sent to concentration camps in the Netherlands and other parts of Europe.<\/p>\n

Before the Holocaust, Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, had 80,000 Jewish residents. The Nazis, with help from local officials, deported and killed more than 60,000 of them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n