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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDutch man returns Israeli Holocaust award after Gaza relatives killed
Dutch man returns Israeli Holocaust award after Gaza relatives killed
Tel Aviv (dpa) - A 91-year-old Dutch man who was awarded Israels Righteous Among the Nations title for saving a Jewish boy during World War II has returned the medal, saying six relatives were killed by the Israeli military during its offensive in the Gaza Strip.
In a letter to the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands published by Haaretz newspaper on Friday, Henk Zanoli said his mothers husband was killed at the Mauthausen concentration camp, while other relatives also perished during the German occupation of the country.
His mother hid a young Jewish boy "in her home risking both her own life and that of her children," until the Allies liberated the Netherlands in 1945. The boy, whose parents died in the camps, eventually immigrated to Israel.
http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/dutch-man-returns-israeli-holocaust-award-after-gaza-relatives-killed_350771.html
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Dutch man returns Israeli Holocaust award after Gaza relatives killed (Original Post)
redgreenandblue
Aug 2014
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redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)1. Kick for evening crowd.
Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)2. That's going to leave a mark.
redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)4. A cruel irony, at very least.
frylock
(34,825 posts)3. knr