AUGUST 25, 1942

Jewish primary school on the Bezemstraat, with Chief Rabbi Isaac Maarsen in the center, (about 1941)
Photo: The Municipal Archives of The Hague (Haags Gemeentearchief)

JEWISH STUDENTS BARRED FROM ORDINARY SCHOOLS

By decree on August 25th 1941 the German occupier stipulated that from September 1st 1941 Jewish students were no longer allowed to attend ‘normal’, i.e. non-Jewish, schools. This meant that Den Haag had to organise special schools for Jewish students. The young Jewish children were only allowed to go to the schools in the Bezemstraat 1-3 in ‘De Buurt’ and on the Duinstraat 10. From December 1st 1942 all primary school children had to go to the Bezemstraat.