Officials in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, are to look at ways to compensate Jews who returned from World War II Nazi concentration camps and were fined for not paying property taxes while they were "away," the Dutch News website reports today (April 3, 2013).
The revelations that dozens of "camp" survivors were sent bills for non-payment of ground rent during the war were made in Parool, a Dutch newspaper.
The bills were sent to Jews who were driven from their homes during the Nazi occupation, who went into hiding or were transported to the death camps, the Parool said. Students discovered evidence of the bills and payments while digitalizing Amsterdam city council records.
"It is a serious situation that needs to be examined," Amsterdam's mayor Eberhard van der Laan said in the Parool. "The legal aspect [of the charges] was looked at with formality, bureaucracy, and coldness rather than the empathy towards victims," Van der Laan said.
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