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Hollandsche
7 TOP 10 JEWISH HISTORICAL
Schouwburg
Jewish families were rounded up at EVENTS
this operetta theatre before being
transported to the death camps.
A moving memorial and a small
exhibition of memorabilia keep
their memory alive (see p129).
Verzetsmuseum
8
Amsterdam
The Dutch Resistance Museum’s
brilliant displays give a vivid sense
of life in an occupied country, as Liberated Jews in 1945
well as an insight into the ingenious 1 1592 onwards
activities of the Dutch Resistance. Sephardic Jews from Portugal and
Exhibits include photographs, Spain, fleeing the Inquisition, settle in
heart- rending letters thrown from Amsterdam, attracted by the city’s
deportation trains, film clips and religious tolerance.
room sets (see p128). 2 1630s
Poor Ashkenazi Jews start to arrive
from eastern Europe (mainly Poland
and Germany).
3 1796
Jews are given equal civil rights during
Napoleon’s Batavian Republic.
4 1860
Drawn to Amsterdam by its new
industries and housing, Jews
emigrate from Antwerp.
5 1932–1937
The Dutch Nazi Party rises under Anton
Mussert; there are waves of Jewish
immigration from Hitler’s Germany.
6 1941
Tuschinski Theater In February, nine months into German
Occupation, dockworkers strike in
Tuschinski Theater
9 protest at the round-up of 450 Jews.
This extraordinary 1921
theatre was the creation of its 7 1942
The deportation of the Jews to Nazi
obsessive owner, Abraham death camps begins. Many, including
Tuschinski, a Jewish emigré who Anne Frank’s family, go into hiding. Of
died at Auschwitz. The sump tuous the 80,000 living in pre-war Amsterdam,
interior crosses Art Deco with the only 5,000 will survive the war.
Orient (see p112). 8 1945
Amsterdam is liberated from Germany
Nooit Meer Auschwitz
0 by Canadian troops on 5 May.
MAP R5 • Wertheimpark
In stark contrast to its peaceful 9 1947
Anne Frank’s diary is published in
surroundings in Wertheimpark, Jan the Netherlands (see pp38–9).
Wolkers’ 1977 Auschwitz memorial 10 1975
Never More features a slab of Violent protests break out against
shattered glass. The fragments the destruction of the Jodenbuurt –
reflect a distorted view of the the old Jewish Quarter – in the
heavens, mirroring the damage Nieuwmarkt.
done to humanity by the Holo caust.

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