Sarphatipark
Neighbourhood park in De Pijp, named for a Jewish doctor who transformed nineteenth-century Amsterdam.
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This guide to Sarphatipark in Amsterdam follows Samuel Sarphati, a Jewish doctor born into a city of choked canals and cholera in 1813, who set out to rebuild it: a cut-price bakery, the city's first organised refuse collection, banks, hotels, and a Palace of Industry. It traces the twenty thousand people who followed his coffin through the streets in 1866, and the friend who compared him to Moses within sight of the Promised Land. You'll also hear how the Nazi occupation erased his name from this park in 1942, and how Amsterdam restored it after the war.
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