🎧 Jerusalem on the Amstel with Lipika Pelham
20th Century
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28m
Lipika Pelham talks to Dan about the Dutch Jewish community in Amsterdam, how the Sephardim Jews ended up there and what they endured during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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