Netherlands Confronts Nazi Occupation History, Unreturned Jewish Property

The Netherlands is confronting its history of Nazi occupation – but many stolen objects remain unreturned

Eight decades after liberation from the Nazis, silence, shame and a struggling legal system keep Jewish property in Dutch family homes Several months ago the Dutch art detective Arthur Brand was amazed to be contacted by a man who had recently made an uncomfortable discovery about his family’s wartime past: that he was a descendant of Hendrik Seyffardt, a Waffen-SS general and one of the highest-ranking Dutch collaborators. Not only that, said the man, but he had found out something else: a p...

By Senay Boztas in Amsterdam