Amsterdam: Holocaust/ Jewish tour – North Holland, Netherlands

EXPERIENCE

The Nazis followed a three step plan: registration, concentration and deportation. In this tour I will show you what happened in Amsterdam.

Located in the heart of the former Jewish quarter, is the theatre. During the war the Nazis made Jews assemble in this building. This was their last stop in Amsterdam and the first step in the deportation process that ended in Auswitsch or Sobibor for most of the Dutch Jews.

In March 2024, the Holocaust museum in Amsterdam opened its doors. It is the only Holocaust museum in the world on a site where the deportation of Jews took place. The museum is located in a former schoolbuilding in the district where many Jewish Amsterdammers lived before the Holocaust. The school was the neighbouring building of the Jewish Nursery School, which was transformed by the Nazis into an assembly point for Jewish children awaiting transportation. The director of the school was a member of the Dutch resistance and through the school they managed to prevent the deportation of more than 600 Jewish children. One of these children became mayor of Amsterdam in 1983. Accross the street is the former Jewish theatre, where the Nazis locked up the adults. Now these two buildings together form the Holocaust museum.

The museum tells the visitor all about the Nazi persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands. Amsterdam needed this museum. The Netherlands suffered the largest number as a result of the persecution of the Jews, of the countries in Western Europe occupied by the Nazis, both in terms of percentages and in absolute numbers.

A visit to the old Portuguese synagogue is included, in my opinion, the most impressive and beautiful site we have in Amsterdam. Here nothing changed since 1670. The Nazis wanted to use this place as the assembly point but they preferred the Jewish theatre.

We end our tour with a visit to the impressive Holocaust monument. A maze of walls with 102.000 bricks, with the names of the Dutch victims.

HIGHLIGHTS

A visit to the impressive Portuguese synagoge is included
Guided visits of the Holocaust museum and Jewish Theatre
A tour with a guide with deep knowledge of WW2 in Holland

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