Dutch city renames park and fire station named after World War II-era mayor who gave Nazis list of local Jews. A city in the Netherlands has renamed a park that was named after a World War II-era mayor who gave the Nazis a list of local Jews. Hoogeveen, located in the Dutch province of Drenthe, changed the name of Mayor Tjalma Park to Municipal Park, the Jonet.nl news site reported. Jetze Tjalma was the mayor of Hoogeveen, which is 80 miles northeast of Amsterdam, from 1927 until 1958. In 2020, a Dutch historian found that Tjalma was the first mayor in the country during the Nazi occupation to provide a list of local Jews to the Nazis, the Jewish Chronicle reported. According to the report from the Dutch news outlet, the city council has also decided that the former mayor will be posthumously deprived of his honorary citizenship. Besides the park, a fire station named in his honor will also have its name changed. Besides giving a list of the area’s Jews to the occupying Nazis, he also ordered a sidewalk constructed over park of the city’s Jewish cemetery.
via israelnationalnews: Dutch city renames park honoring mayor who collaborated with Nazis
siehe auch: Un parc qui portait le nom d’un maire qui a dénoncé des Juifs aux nazis rebaptisé Le maire de la ville néerlandaise avait volontairement remis aux envahisseurs nazis la liste des Juifs de sa ville et permis la construction d’une route sur le cimetière juif. Une municipalité néerlandaise a rebaptisé un parc qui avait été nommé en l’honneur d’un maire qui avait aidé les nazis à chasser les Juifs de sa ville. La municipalité de Hogeveen, une ville d’environ 55 000 habitants située à environ 130 km au nord-est de la capitale néerlandaise Amsterdam, a décidé le mois dernier de rebaptiser le parc Mayor Tjalma, selon un article publié sur le site d’information Jonet.nl. Le nouveau nom est Municipal Park.