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Resisting Nazis, He Saw Need for Israel. Now He Is Its Critic.
THE
HAGUE — In 1943, Henk Zanoli took a dangerous train trip, slipping past
Nazi guards and checkpoints to smuggle a Jewish boy from Amsterdam to
the Dutch village of Eemnes. There, the Zanoli family, already under
suspicion for resisting the Nazi occupation, hid the boy in their home
for two years. The boy would be the only member of his family to survive
the Holocaust.
Seventy-one
years later, on July 20, an Israeli airstrike flattened a house in the
Gaza Strip, killing six of Mr. Zanoli’s relatives by marriage. His
grandniece, a Dutch diplomat, is married to a Palestinian economist,
Ismail Ziadah, who lost three brothers, a sister-in-law, a nephew and
his father’s first wife
On
Thursday, Mr. Zanoli, 91, whose father died in a Nazi camp, went to the
Israeli Embassy in The Hague and returned a medal he received honoring
him as one of the Righteous Among the Nations
— non-Jews honored by Israel for saving Jews during the Holocaust. In
an anguished letter to the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands, he
described the terrible price his family had paid for opposing Nazi
tyranny....READ MORE
