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Hollandsche Schouwburg

Address: Plantage Middenlaan 24, East of the Amstel, Amsterdam | Map It
Phone: 020/531-0340
www.hollandscheschouwburg.nl

Dutch Theater

Category: Memorials/Monuments
Location: East of the Amstel

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Fodor's Review:

From 1892 to 1941, this was the theater for Dutch language performances written by luminaries like Herman Heyermans and Esther de Boer-van Rijk and played by artists like Louis "Little Big Man" Davids. In 1941, the Nazis relegated it to a Jewish-only theater, before turning it into a central gathering point for deportation of the city's Jews in 1942. In 1993, the Jewish Historical Museum renovated the theater, turning it into a memorial, where the 6,700 family names of 104,000 Dutch Jews who were murdered are displayed. There is also an upstairs exhibition on the Nazi occupation and an educational program showing documents, photographs, and videos. It is the large and silent courtyard that is perhaps the most effective remembrance of the 80,000 souls that left through this theater's doors to meet their dramatic end in Germany.

Cost: Free
Open: Daily 11-4

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