The City of Amsterdam fined hundreds of Jewish
Holocaust survivors for failing to pay taxes while they were in hiding
or in concentration camps.
Read more: Amsterdam fined, taxed Holocaust survivors in hiding | The Times of Israel
The affair was exposed in an article in Het
Parool, a local daily, on March 30. Many of the houses in question were
confiscated and used by members of the NSB Dutch Nazi party while the
Jewish owners were in hiding or in camps.
The city went after survivors as late as 1947,
the report said. Other Dutch municipalities waived such debts, Het
Parool reported. The following year the city agreed to reimburse half of
what it charged to some Jews who were taxed in absentia. The city’s
archives contain 342 requests for reimbursement, Het Parool reported.
The documents about this taxation were
discovered by Charlotte van den Berg, a 23-year-old university student.
She said she found them bundled with an elastic band in the archive
section of one of the city’s departments while conducting research on
Jewish home owners.
About 75 percent of Holland’s pre-World War II Jewish population of
140,000 was murdered in the Holocaust, according to the Center for
Information and Documentation on Israel, a Hague-based watchdog on
anti-Semitism which is known locally by its acronym CIDI.
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