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Zoo refuge: Amsterdam menagerie hid Jews from the Nazis
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Nazis, Holocaust, Holland 

The Artis Zoo, built in the middle of the 19th century in the center of Amsterdam, was Europe's first.

But many visitors don't know about the role the zoo played during the World War II, when dozens or even hundreds of people, Dutch Jews among them, were thus saved from the Nazis by hiding in storerooms above the caged animals.


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oughly 140,000 Jews lived in Holland in the first half of the 20th century, and were joined by 30,000 who escaped Germany with the rise of the Nazis. When the extermination of Dutch Jewry began with the Nazi invasion in 1942, Martin Frankenhaus, the zoo's future manager, had just been born.

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      1.   In Budapest there was the "Glass house" where Jews were hidden. 15:07  |  PETER SM 01/05/08
      2.   Artis Zoo 15:45  |  Tulip 01/05/08
      3.   Polish Heroes 15:45  |  as 01/05/08
      4.   zoo 15:54  |  sandra 01/05/08
      5.   Warsaw Zoo 16:39  |  as 01/05/08
      6.   Zoo story 17:08  |  peter 01/05/08
      7.   Dutch Saving Jews @ Zoo in Amsterdam 22:07  |  JMM 01/05/08
      8.   nazi invasion in 1940 !!! 22:12  |  Ernst 01/05/08
      9.   No one survived 23:17  |  MW 01/05/08
      10.   Happen again 01:00  |  Lev 02/05/08
      11.   MW... 19:46  |  Teddy 02/05/08
      12.   peter sm 18:25  |  wh 03/05/08
      13.   interpeting what he said, ment. 20:33  |  KarenSue W Nader 03/05/08
      14.   He meant that... 22:50  |  Habakuk 04/05/08
      15.   artis during the holocaust 16:53  |  Betty 10/05/08
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