Amersfoort carried out various anti-Jewish measures on behalf of the German occupier during the Second World War. The municipality also tried to buy stolen Jewish real estate and around the liberation and after the war, there was little attention for the Jewish residents of Amersfoort and their victimhood. This is the conclusion of historian Maarten-Jan Vos in his research A page in Amersfoort’s Jewish history as black as has ever been seen before.
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Furniture theft and hunt for people in hiding: this is how anti-Jewish Amersfoort was, new research shows
