Netherlands Archives

April 27, 2025
International
World

Netherlands celebrates King’s Day in style with flares, boats and parties

Across the Netherlands, people wore bright orange clothes, from tuxedos to feather boas, to celebrate King Willem-Alexander’s birthday. In Amsterdam, the canals were packed with boats full of cheering crowds enjoying the national party. (Photo: AP) Source link

April 24, 2025
Femke
Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Halsema
Holocaust and the Nazi Era
International
Netherlands
War Crimes
World
World War II (1939-45)

Amsterdam’s Mayor Apologizes for City’s Role in the Holocaust

Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city’s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the Holocaust, in a rare acknowledgment of a collective moral failure by a city leader. “Amsterdam’s’ government was, when it mattered, not heroic, not determined and […]