Amsterdam's mayor has publicly apologized for the city's role in the Holocaust, acknowledging that local authorities failed to protect Jewish residents during World War II.
Over 60,000 Jews from Amsterdam were deported and killed, with only about 20,000 surviving from the pre-war population of 80,000. The mayor described the city's actions as a 'horrible abandonment' of its Jewish citizens.
This apology marks a significant moment of reckoning with the city's past and its complicity in the atrocities committed during the Holocaust.
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Amsterdam’s Mayor Apologizes for City’s Role in the Holocaust
The city “horribly abandoned its Jewish residents,” more than 60,000 of whom were deported and killed during World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema said on Thursday.
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