AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Located in what used to be this Dutch city’s Jewish neighborhood, its Jewish Cultural Quarter — a group of museums and other institutions situated within a few blocks of ...

The Children's Jewish Museum in the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam, September 25, 2008. (Ruud van Zwet/via JTA) A view inside the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, which is part of the city ...

AMSTERDAM –Seventy years after the vast majority of its Jewish citizens were deported to Auschwitz and Sobibor, the Dutch capital recently inaugurated a “Jewish Cultural Quarter” on the site ...

Ashkenazi Jews, who arrived in Amsterdam during the Middle Ages, today comprise most of the 30,000 Jews who live in the city. Almost no Jews live in the ancient Jewish Quarter ...

Every day, young Anne Frank and her sister Margot walked 2.5 kilometres to school, as Nazi anti-Jewish laws barred them from ...

Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter is getting ready to reopen Now there’s a fear that when the cultural quarter reopens, it won’t have the same impact in multiple ways.