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 ...

Explore the Jewish quarter. It’s not unusual for people to travel to Amsterdam for one reason, and one reason only: the Anne Frank House.As impressive as the experience is, it books up months in ...

S ome years ago, at an exhibition in Amsterdam’s Jewish Quarter, “The Persecution of the Jews in Photographs: The Netherlands, 1940–1945,” I was struck by single photograph of a young ...

The houses of 26 deported poor Jewish families, a familiar sight in the old Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. Their belongings were looted by the Nazis, but regularly ordinary citizens also took their ...

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.