Oosterpark
Leafy English-landscape park holding two powerful memorials: a slavery monument and a freedom-of-speech sculpture.
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This guide to Oosterpark in Amsterdam turns on a Tuesday morning in November 2004, when filmmaker Theo van Gogh, great-grandnephew of the painter, cycled to work along Linnaeusstraat just steps from here, having waved off friends who urged him to accept police protection after death threats. A four-and-a-half-metre steel sculpture now stands in the park, its face screaming on one side and silent on the other.
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