Jewish Cultural Quarter Amsterdam · Plantage Middenlaan 27
An entry ticket for the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam and the National Holocaust Memorial in the Hollandsche Schouwburg across the street. Pick it to understand what happened to the Jewish community Anne Frank belonged to, told through the lives of the people it happened to.
The National Holocaust Museum opened on 10 March 2024, in a former Protestant teacher training college on Plantage Middenlaan. Its permanent exhibition, The Netherlands and the Shoah, starts with Jewish and non-Jewish neighbours living side by side with the same rights, then follows the persecution under the occupation and the deportations. It closes with liberation and how the country has remembered since. The museum holds about 2,500 objects, and it gives the victims recognisable faces.
The building is part of the story. During the war the nursery next door was used as a gathering place for Jewish children before deportation. Its director, Henriëtte Pimentel, helped hundreds of children escape, often through the college building you are standing in, according to the Jewish Cultural Quarter. Across the street, the Hollandsche Schouwburg was a theatre; from July 1942 Jews ordered to report for deportation were held there, and tens of thousands passed through its doors. Today it is the National Holocaust Memorial, and this ticket covers both.
Both sites open daily from 10:00 to 17:00, with shorter hours around Christmas and New Year. The Jewish Cultural Quarter recommends the museum for ages 10 and up. Free audio guides are available in Dutch, English, German and Hebrew, every building has a lift, and bags larger than A4 go in the cloakroom. The listing says photography is allowed, with respect. Plan at least two hours; one guest stayed three.
Show your ticket at the entrance, leave large bags in the cloakroom and pick up an audio guide.
Jewish life in the Netherlands before 1940, side by side with everyone else.
The persecution under the occupation and the deportations.
How Henriëtte Pimentel and others helped children escape through the college next door.
What survivors came back to, and how the country has remembered.
The former theatre, now the National Holocaust Memorial, for a quiet moment at the end.
★★★★★Very interesting, designed with a lot of sensitivity and dignity. Extremely impressive accounts from contemporary witnesses.
★★★★★I thought this tour and the museum was very sombre. The instructions provided at the start by the staff were easy to understand. The visit gave a great overview of wartime in the Netherlands, and the history relating to the holocaust.
★★★★★It was very balanced and thought provoking about democracy and the slippery slope.
★★★★★Learnt so much. Was incredible. Ended up spending 3 hrs there!!
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Daily 10:00 to 17:00, the same as the Hollandsche Schouwburg. Hours are shorter around Christmas and New Year, and the Jewish Cultural Quarter lists the exceptions on its website.
Yes. The ticket covers the museum and the National Holocaust Memorial in the Hollandsche Schouwburg across the street.
Plan two to three hours, including the memorial. Guests regularly say they wanted more time.
The Jewish Cultural Quarter recommends it for ages 10 and up, the same age the Anne Frank House advises.
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The persecution of Dutch Jews, at the National Holocaust Museum and the memorial opposite.
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