BEGINNING OF THE ANTI-JEWISH LAWS AND MEASURES All Anti-Jewish measures the German occupiers took had as goal to isolate and register the Jews. Step by step the Jews were alienated from the rest of Dutch society. This happened without notable protest. See the complete...
SECOND WORLD WAR In 1940 at the start of the war, the Jewish community in Den Haag consisted of around 17.000 people. About 12.000 Jews from Den Haag have been murdered in concentrationcamps. Some 2.000 returned to the city from the camps or out of hiding. Then there...
KRISTALLNACHT: JEWISH CHILDREN SHELTERED IN THE HAGUE In 1938 the Dutch Government decided that all Jewish fugitives were ‘unwanted foreigners’ for whom there was no place here. Still after Kristallnacht, the night from 9 to10 November 1938, The...
FLIGHT FROM THE NAZI TERROR From the moment Hitler had become chancellor of Germany, a steady stream of Jewish fugitives from Germany entered The Netherlands. The city of Den Haag housed them on an estate, the ‘Landgoed...
NEW SYNAGOGUES IN SCHEVENINGEN AND IN THE BEZUIDENHOUT Since the start of the 20th century Scheveningen too had a flourishing Jewish community. In 1926 a new synagogue was inaugurated at the Harstenhoekweg. Another new synagogue was established in the Carpentierstraat...
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