THE HAGUE, The Netherlands (JTA) — A Christian school in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood has resumed a plan to unveil a plaque in memory of Holocaust victims, despite concerns of anti-Semitic vandalism.

The board of the Paul Kruger School in The Hague said last week it would move ahead with the plan, which was shelved in recent years because of what school bosses said were “concerns that youths would destroy the monument.”

The association which runs the school, Stichting Christelijk Onderwijs, said in a statement on June 5 that it is “in talks with the directors of the school about setting up of the plaque.” The Paul Kruger School – named after an Afrikaner national leader – used to be a Jewish high school before the Holocaust.

The shelving of the plan to commemorate the Jewish students who studied there was revealed earlier this month in a report by the De Telegraaf daily, which linked it to “concerns that the plaque would anger Muslim residents” of Schilderswijk — a neighborhood of 30,000 where a majority of residents are from Muslim countries.

The rightist Party for Freedom has written to Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten to demand the government launch a study of anti-Semitism among Muslim immigrants but the school’s board denied that it has received any complaints by Muslims about the plaque.

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