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Amsterdam to mark role of tram system in transportation of Jews to death camps
Documentary on deportation of 48,000 Jewish Amsterdammers during Holocaust prompts city to act
On 8 August 1944, an Amsterdam tram took Anne Frank from Weteringschans prison, past the “ secret annexe ” where she had hidden from the Nazis, on the start of a journey to her death. Two weeks after the release of a documentary by the Emmy award-winning film director Willy Lindwer, showing the complicity of the city’s transport service, Amsterdam has announced it will mark the network’s role in the Holocaust with memorial boards at key stations. Amsterdam is also paying €100,000 to the Centraal Joods Overleg Jewish organisation, in an initial recognition of the amount – equivalent to €61,000 – the city charged for the tram tickets.
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