Waterloopleinmarkt
Daily open-air flea market on Amsterdam's oldest market square, once the heart of the Jewish quarter.
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This guide to Waterloopleinmarkt in Amsterdam returns to a February evening in 1941, when forty Dutch Nazis marched into the Jewish quarter and onto this square, not for the first time that week, while residents organized around a local boxing trainer waited in the doorways and alleys around you. It follows individual defenders, including a young sign painter and boxer named Lard Zilverberg, and traces what their resistance set in motion across the city in the days that followed. Look at the ordinary market stalls around you and imagine the square emptied of everything but that standoff.
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