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Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter is getting ready to reopen, but some wonder if it will ever be the same The group of museums and monuments is known for encouraging visitors to interact with guides.
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 ...
Israeli fans were assaulted after a soccer game in Amsterdam by hordes of young people apparently riled up by calls on social media to target Jewish people, Dutch authorities said Friday.
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.
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 ...
Ajax is known as a soccer club with links to Amsterdam’s Jewish community because visiting fans had to pass the city’s Jewish quarter to get to the club’s former stadium.
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 was known as the Jerusalem of the West before the war because of its thriving Jewish population, many of whom supported Ajax, whose stadium was close to the Jewish quarter.
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.