The chairman of the Dutch branch of the Red Cross has expressed his deep apologies that the organization did not make enough efforts to protect the Jews during the Holocaust.
The apology came following the publishing of a report in Amsterdam that said, "The Red Cross in the Netherlands failed to save Jews during the Second World War." The report states that the Dutch Red Cross did not enlist enough to help rescue Jews from the clutches of the Nazis during the Holocaust. At the time, the organization claimed that it could not help Jews because they were not defined as citizens or prisoners of war.