Holocaust Memorial & Dutch Theater (Jewish Cultural Quarter)
Roofless WWII deportation theater turned Holocaust memorial, with a surname wall honoring victims.
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This guide to the Holocaust Memorial and Dutch Theater in Amsterdam's Jewish Cultural Quarter opens in the summer of 1942, when the Nazis turned a working theater into a holding pen for Jews awaiting deportation, and describes the nursery across the street where children were separated from their parents. It follows Walter Suskind, the man Nazi authorities put in charge of reception here, and the way he began making children disappear from the official records. Diarist Willy Alexander's account of the crowded, sweltering theater in March 1943 is one of several first-hand voices the guide draws on.
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