AFTER THE WAR At the start of the Second World War approximately 17.000 Jews lived in Den Haag. After the war some 2.000 returned. Taking up their normal lives proved difficult. There was no help or even understanding for the returning surviving victims of the...
JEWISH STUDENTS BARRED FROM ORDINARY SCHOOLS The German occupiers decided that Jews were no longer allowed to live in Den Haag. Most Jews had already been deported bij April 23rd 1943 and Jews who were still here attempted to go into...
SITTING ON PUBLIC BENCHES ‘VERBOTEN’ In Den Haag Jews were no longer allowed to use public...
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...
TRANSPORT FROM RAILWAY STATION ‘STAATSSPOOR’ (TODAY THE ‘CENTRAAL STATION’) August 18th 1942 4000 Jews from Den Haag had to report at the railway station Staatsspoor (now Den Haag Centraal) to be deported. They were the first of the...
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