Plans for creation of national Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam October 7, 2011 News There are plans to establish a national Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam. The museum will likely be located in the Hollandsche Schouwburg — a former theater from which the Nazi occupiers deported tens of thousands of Jews during the Second World War. [Continue Reading...]
Hollandsche Schouwburg — War Memorial September 25, 2009 Museums, The Plantage, What to See Built 1892, the Hollandsche Schouwburg (Dutch Theatre) long was a house of culture and entertainment. But during the Second World War the German occupiers turned the building into a place of grief and sorrow. It is now a war memorial in remembrance of the Jews who were deported from here. [Continue Reading...]