Joods Historisch Museum

Max Liebermann : Judenstrasse in Amsterdam. 1906

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.

Museum locations
Joods Historisch Museum
The former Hoogduitse Synagogue (Photo: bma.amsterdam.nl.)
First location: De Waag 1932–1984 (2003)
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

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.)