National Holocaust Museum

102,000 Jews living in the Netherlands were killed in the Holocaust

Opening in 2024

The new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam was opened by Dutch King Willem-Alexander in March 2024, after giving a speech at a gathering in the nearby Portuguese Synagogue.

After nearly 80 years, the complete history of the Shoah in the Netherlands has its own permanent and publicly accessible home.

Exhibition

The National Holocaust Museum explains how the genocide unfolded and the experiences of those who were its victims.

Between 1940 and 1945, on the orders of the German occupying authorities, Jews in the Netherlands as well as others, including Roma and Sinti, were systematically discriminated against, persecuted, deported and murdered.

After the war, around 30,000 of the Jews from the Netherlands remained alive, a fraction of the prewar community. The exhibition shows how regulations and people enabled this.

Collection

Over 2,500 objects, rediscovered photos and films, audio recordings, documents and installations are on display and tell the history of the Holocaust in the Netherlands and in the concentration and extermination camps of Nazi-occupied Europe.

They come from dozens of museum collections in the Netherlands and abroad, as well as from victims, survivors and survivors’ family members.

Location

National Holocaust Museum resides in a former Protestant school, opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg memorial site in the Plantage neighbourhood.

It is close to Artis Zoo and Hortus Botanicus.