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On Holocaust Memorial Day, Dutch PM apologizes for government role during WWII
January 26, 2020
Mark Rutte and rabbi Meno ten Brink. Photo: Sabine Joosten/ Hollandse Hoogte
Prime minister Mark Rutte usedhis speech[Dutch only] during the national Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony in Amsterdam on Sunday to apologize for the actions of the Dutch government during World War II.
‘Now that the last survivors are still among us, I apologize today on behalf of the government for what the government did back then,’ Rutte said.
It is because so few survivors are still alive that ‘we must fully acknowledge what happened at the time,’ Rutte said, speaking at theNooit米尔奥斯维辛集中营memorial in Amsterdam’s Wertheim park.
‘When a group of [fellow] countrymen were set aside, excluded and dehumanized under a murderous regime, we failed,’ he said. And while there was some resistance within government, ‘too many Dutch officials carried out what the occupiers demanded of them,’ he said.
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Rutte said he was apologizing in the knowledge that ‘no word can express something as big and horrific as the Holocaust’.
‘It is up to us, the post-war generations, to continue to commemorate, to honour the dead by name,’ the prime minister said.
The Netherlands is still struggling to come to terms with the way it treated Jews who returned home in 1945 and whose property and possessions had been stolen or lost.
Few survivors
Only 35,000 of the country’s Jewish population of 140,000 survived the war and 102,000 of the 107,000 who were deported to death camps were killed.
Those who returned found their houses and possession had been taken, and many werepresented with billsfor unpaid taxes andground rent for their homes, scandals which are only now finally being dealt with.
In 2018, Dutch state-owned railway firm NS said it would pay compensation to survivors and family members of people it transported to death camps.
NS earned large amounts of money from the German occupiers by transporting Jews to Westerbork, the holding camp where people were kept before being moved out to Germany and Poland.
The prime minister’s apology has been welcomed by Jewish groups and survivors. In 2012, Rutte said the cabinet saw no reason to apologize for the Dutch government’s attitude to Jews during World War II.
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