A vicious attack on Jews after a soccer match in Amsterdam “shocked” a New Yorker who fled the Dutch city as a child to escape the Holocaust.
“It's like a modern-day Kristallnacht,” he said furiously. lower bearA native of Amsterdam, he was born three months before the infamous “Night of Broken Glass” on November 9, 1938, when scores of Jews were assaulted.
“This is history repeating itself. It's truly unforgettable,” the 86-year-old Upper West Sider told the Post on Friday, marking the 86th anniversary of that horrific night.
An unprovoked attack on Israeli soccer fans who were in the city to watch the Maccabi Tel Aviv team on Thursday has been called an “unwarranted attack.”classic pogrom”
According to reports, Jewish men, women, and children were rammed into cars by Arabic-speaking mobs, beaten in the streets, stabbed, and thrown into canals.
The watchdog group said police “inaction” allowed the incident to continue for several hours.
“They told the Israelis to enter the hotel and not to leave.” StandWithUs Netherlands Director-General Yari Barev told the Post, adding that the Jewish victims reportedly “did not feel safe with local police.”
More than 80 years after the Holocaust, the shocking attacks on Jews hit “very close to home” for Baer. Bear lived in Amsterdam until he was five years old, when he was taken away to wait out the war with his Gentile family.
“That saved my life,” he said. multimedia artist.
She watched the eerily familiar scenes of Jews being chased, beaten, and running away in the street. the police are doing little to stop it – Bear recalled the horrors of Kristallnacht due to the “crime” of being Jewish.
“I'm sitting here crying,” said the grandmother of eight, who worries about the fate of her family in the United States.
“It's not that different from what's happening in Colombia,” she argued, noting that the Dutch Arab mob had delivered on the promises made by the keffiyeh-wearing university bike protesters. did.
After immigrating to the United States in 1947 with his parents, who also survived the war, Baer returned to his hometown of Amsterdam dozens of times over the years.
The previous visit coincided with the October 7 Hamas massacre.
“There was nothing but fear in what happened. I felt only love,” Baer said of the warmth and support she felt in Amsterdam during the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
“Things have obviously changed,” she said, adding she's not sure she'll be able to go back.
Holocaust organizations have condemned the shocking attack and its haunting timing.
“Eighty-six years after Kristallnacht, we are reliving a pogrom on the streets of Europe. This is unacceptable,” said Greg Schneider, who founded the advocacy group.in Kristallnacht” Educational project aimed at school-age children.
“We are depressed that we have not learned lessons from the Shoah.
“This is not history, this is news.”
