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Hundreds of people gathered on Sunday in Amsterdam for the National Holocaust Remembrance Day. At the Mirror Monument in Wertheim Park, people remembered how the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated 79 years ago. At 11 a.m., the participants in a silent march reached the park from Amsterdam City Hall. Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema, and South African Ambassador to the Netherlands Vusi Madonsela were at the forefront.

An analysis of declassified historical documents shows that members of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee, who were classified as an extremist group, were monitored by the secret service

“That cannot be justified, not even with time,” said Jacques Grishaver, chair of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee.The post Dutch agency spying on Holocaust survivors for years ‘defies any idea of

Jacques Grishaver said it was scandalous that Jewish Amsterdammers who were involved with the Dutch Auschwitz Committee were followed by national security services after World War II. Grishaver, the current chair of the committee, spoke out regarding research by Parool published on Saturday based on personal files that were transferred to the National Archives in The Hague last year.

An analysis of 71,000 declassified files produced by former Dutch national domestic security service BVD showed that the service frequently spied on many Jewish Amsterdammers who returned to the Netherlands after World War II. The survivors of the Nazi extermination camps were viewed as "extremists" and a threat to democracy even into the 1980s, according to Parool.