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The Hague advised to offer $2.75 million in Holocaust restitution
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe executive board of the municipality of The Hague in the Netherlands advised the city government to offer $2.75 million in restitution for money wrongfully collected from Holocaust survivors.
The recommendation, announced yesterday, follows the vote last year by the City Council of Amsterdam to allocate $11 million to Jewish causes as compensation for similar practices.
The funds made available to Jewish individuals and organizations are for property taxes that The Hague and Amsterdam local authorities demanded from Jewish residents for the years 1940 to 1945, when the Netherlands was under Nazi occupation and the vast majority of Dutch Jews were either in hiding or in Nazi concentration camps.
— JTA
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