Free tour

Jewish Persecution Amsterdam 1940/1945

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Amsterdam

Duration: 1 hour and 45 minutes

Languages: English

Guru: Jeroen

Registered on 08 October 2024

The Time Traveler Who is the time traveler? My name is Jeroen de Wolf, born 31-1-1965, in Amsterdam, happily married and father of three children. In addition to my love for history, I love speed and sports. I like to ride my motorcycle or racing bike and enjoy running. I also like to go on vacation and being an Ajax fan is instilled in me from an early age. After working for about 30 years in various commercial positions at Kodak, IBM and the last 20 years at Hewlett-Packard, I completely changed course in 2016: I stopped working and started studying history at the University of Amsterdam. I have since obtained my master's degree in military history and have turned my hobby into my profession. Because, I have realized my two dreams: teaching history at the Cambium College in Zaltbommel and combining my commercial knowledge with my knowledge of history to improve the connection between teams. During my studies I became more and more convinced that it is important to share interesting and important historical knowledge with other people. My main goal is to let people feel history in order to better understand what happened in the past, but with this knowledge also to look critically at your own ideas about today's society.

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Pay-what-you-wish tour, no set price, booking and cancellation are free

Tour description

How is it possible that 102,000 Dutch Jews were murdered during the Second World War? How did the extermination process proceed and what role did the Jewish Council play? How did the February Strike come about and how did the Dutch deal with the persecution of the Jews? These questions will be addressed during a tour of the Jewish Quarter of Amsterdam.

The walk starts at the Hollandse Schouwburg, where the Holocaust Museum of Amsterdam is now located. We then leave for the Mirror Monument of the Dutch Auschwitz Committee, designed by the writer and visual artist Jan Wolkers. Then we walk to De Dokwerker, a statue and monument on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in memory of the February Strike of 1941. Our next stop is the National Holocaust Names Monument with the names of 102,000 people who were never given a grave. After an impressive tour, we go to a stately canal house where the Jewish Council of Amsterdam was located during the Second World War. Our last stop is the Café de Sluyswacht. In this cozy café, in the middle of the Jewish quarter, you can enjoy a cup of coffee or a drink while discussing the impressive walk and asking additional questions.

Highlights

What will we see on this tour?

Meeting point:

Holocaust Mem & Dutch Theater (Jewish Cultural Quarter), Plantage Middenlaan 24, 1018 DE Amsterdam, Netherlands

I will be at the front of the Holocaust museum and wear a yellow VR46 cap

Outside visit

National Holocaust Museum

Outside visit

Auschwitzmonument

Outside visit

De Dokwerker

How much does this tour cost?

Free tours don't have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end the amount they consider appropriate (amounts usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).