September 11, 2024
Columnist Dick Hubert left the Holocaust Memorial in Amsterdam to walk back to his hotel. There he witnessed a march through Amsterdam of pro Palestinian, anti Israel demonstrators shouting “From the river to the sea, Palestinians will be free.”
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Dick Hubert’s Worldview: Confronting emotional political issues in the heart of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
My wife and I have been visiting her family relatives in the Netherlands prior to a cruise we will be taking from Amsterdam to Rome. Last Friday, Sept. 6, one of those relatives and his wife took us to the Holocaust Memorial Monument in the heart of Amsterdam, which opened on Sept. 19, 2021. It’s next door to the Museum of the City of Amsterdam. The memorial is dedicated to “the murder of the Jews, Sinti, and Roma from the Netherlands.” And to visit it is heartbreaking.
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