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Article: DUTCH TOURIST GUIDES
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- Jerusalem Post
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- October 31, 1996
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Yaacov Friedler
Jerusalem Post
10-31-1996
Sir, I was gratified to read your report(October 10) of the Dutch government’s decision to share in the financing of a book on the Righteous Gentiles of Holland who, at the risk of their lives, saved Jews during the German occupation. Since the subject has now again been raised, the Dutch government may find it fit to deal also with the following problem that I experienced on a sightseeing bus tour of Amsterdam in May.
The guide, a pleasant young man in his thirties, described the sights to us in German and English, after having ascertained that these were the languages of the passengers. These were exact translations one of the other, down ...