A new study of the NIOD, the National Institute for War Documentation,
has found that the Amsterdam municipality was unnecessarily harsh toward Jewish
home-owners who had survived the war and because of deportation or going into
hiding had not paid their long-lease payments to the Amsterdam municipality
during the war. They had to pay
fines. This was not the case in The
Hague, for instance. The NIOD
researchers state that Amsterdam had sufficient legal cause to forgo the
fines. Recently the mayor of Amsterdam
announced that the fines will be returned, albeit 70 years later.
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