But a new survey suggests a “disturbing” lack of awareness about the Holocaust in the Netherlands, where she and her family hid for years before being discovered and deported to a Nazi concentration camp.
Equally disturbing is the trend toward Holocaust denial and distortion,” Claims Conference President Gideon Taylor said in a press release accompanying the survey.
Some of them, a small part, do not even know about the Holocaust,” Dutch Holocaust survivor Max Arpels Lezer, 86, told NBC News by video call from his home in Amsterdam.
A memorial at the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, where Dutch Jews were kept before being sent to concentration camps.
In 1961, Lezer married Sofia, now 86, who as a child had been hidden by a Dutch family during the war.