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S ix million Jews perished in World War II. Dutch Jews were among the hardest hit. DW visited two synagogues in the Netherlands to see how they have been resurrected and filled with life 80 years ...
Pigeons fly as Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima arrive to lay a wreath during a solemn annual national service to commemorate the war dead in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, May 4, 2025.
It is 450 years since the start of the 80 Years War (1568-1648) and the Rijksmuseum has made it the subject of a major new exhibition. Here’s what you need to know about why this was such an important ...
Dutch Adopt US War Graves to Harbor Memories of the Country's Liberation 80 Years Ago MARGRATEN, Netherlands (AP) — In the rolling hills of the southern Netherlands, locals have vowed to never ...
80 years ago on Oct. 7, Jewish Sonderkommando workers staged a failed revolt at Auschwitz Decades before the Hamas atrocities, inmates took up arms against their Nazi tormentors.
About 10 years ago "my grandmother, who was a young girl during the war, came to see the play", he said. "For her it was very confronting to see me in a Nazi uniform.
Thousands of people gathered in Amsterdam to watch as Dutch King Willem-Alexander laid a wreath at a war memorial, 80 years and a day since the country was liberated from Nazi occupation in 1945.
MARGRATEN, Netherlands (AP) — In the rolling hills of the southern Netherlands, locals have vowed to never forget the American and other Allied soldie ...
Thousands of people gathered in Amsterdam to watch as Dutch King Willem-Alexander laid a wreath at a war memorial, 80 years and a day since the country was liberated from Nazi occupation in 1945.
Eighty years after the liberation of the south of the Netherlands, Scott Taylor, center, Ton Hermes and Maria Kleijnen stand next to the grave of Scott's grandfather Second Lt. Royce Taylor, a ...