Noordermarkt
Historic Jordaan square hosting Amsterdam's oldest organic Saturday market, anchored by the seventeenth-century Noorderkerk.
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This guide to Noordermarkt in Amsterdam returns to February 1941, days after Nazi soldiers seized four hundred twenty-five Jewish men from the streets nearby, when banned Communist Party organizers gathered on this square after dark to print calls to strike. It follows what began the next morning with the tram drivers and spread through the docks, shops, and schools in the days after. Look at the south wall of the seventeenth-century Noorderkerk beside you, where a small plaque marks where that decision was made.
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