Joods Historisch Museum
The Joods Historisch Museum (German: Jewish historical museum ) is a museum in Amsterdam about the history of Judaism in Amsterdam. Since 1987 the museum has been located on Jonas Daniël Meijerplein, in the heart of the former Jewish quarter. With the Portuguese Synagogue , the National Holocaust Museum and the Hollandschen Schouwburg , the four museums form the “ Joods Cultureel Kwartier ”.
The building
Since May 3, 1987, the museum has been located in a complex of the four former Ashkenazi synagogues. After World War II , the synagogues near the Waterlooplein and the Weesperstraat were no longer used for their religious purposes.
history
Before its current location, the museum was housed in the medieval De Waag building (city scales on the Nieuwmarkt near Sint Antoniespoort ). This forerunner institution before the Second World War was called the Stichting Joods Historisch Museum. It was opened on February 24, 1932. During the German occupation it was closed and a large part of the collection was stolen. Part of it could be returned. After its reopening in 1955, the persecution and murder of the Jewish Dutch and the German and Austrian Jews who fled here became an important aspect of the museum's work.
The former Hoogduitse Synagogue (Photo: bma.amsterdam.nl.)
The De Dokwerker memorial commemorates the February strike in February 1941
Award
- 1989: Museum Prize of the Council of Europe
- 2002: Museum Prize of the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund
- 2012: BankGiro Loterij Museumsprijs
See also
- Dutch history - World War II
- List of memorials for the victims of National Socialism
- Westerbork transit camp
- Portuguese Synagogue, Amsterdam
- List of museums in Amsterdam
literature
- Clara Asscher-Pinkhof , Wilhelm Niemeyer (translation): Sternkinder. Foreword by Erich Kästner . Oetinger publishing house. 4th edition 1998, ISBN 3-7891-0696-8 .
- Nathan Mageen and Angela Genger : Between Evening and Dawn. A story from the Dutch resistance. Arranged by Angela Genger and Andrea Kramp. Edited by the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Düsseldorf e. V. and the memorial site of the state capital Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 2005.
- Andreas Pflock: On forgotten tracks. A guide to memorials in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. BpB , Bonn 2006. (Series: Topics and Materials.)
Web links
- Official websites (Dutch)
- Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam . In: amsterdam.info
- Jewish Historical Museum . In: gedenkstaetten-uebersicht.de
Footnotes
- ^ Het Joods Historisch Museum - Joods Cultureel Kwartier. In: jck.nl. Accessed May 10, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '2.3 " N , 4 ° 54' 14.6" E