Tells the story of the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews of the Netherlands.
Tells the story of the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jews of the Netherlands.
National Holocaust Museum on Amsterdam’s Plantage Middenlaan
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plantage Middenlaan 27
Amsterdam (Centrum)
tram 14 Artis
local_parking Markenhoven
| Opening hours | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 10:00 | - | 17:00 |
| Mon | 10:00 | - | 17:00 |
| Tue | 10:00 | - | 17:00 |
| Wed | 10:00 | - | 17:00 |
| Thu | 10:00 | - | 17:00 |
| Fri | 10:00 | - | 17:00 |
| Sat | 10:00 | - | 17:00 |
| Entrance fee | |
|---|---|
| €20.00 | adults (18+) |
| €10.00 | students |
| € 8.00 | 13-17 years |
| € 6.00 | 6-12 years |
| free | 0-5 years |
official website
www.jck.nl
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more impressions
Desk of David Cohen, who was leader of the wartime Jewish Council
From Refuge to Freedom by Gabriel Lester (2023)
Side corridor of the former Kweekschool, which directly connected the door on the street to the bicycle storage shed behind the school. Jewish children, accompanied by their rescuers, would leave the Teachers' Training College via this corridor.
In 1942 and 1943 some 600 Jewish children were rescued from the Crèche. They escaped via the garden. Most of them survived the Shoah in hiding but they had to leave their family and Jewish identity behind.
video
Prominent musicians played in the short-lived Jewish Symphony Orchestra during WW II. Artist Martin Monnickendam painted a portrait of Albert van Raalte, who conducted the orchestra.
Dress from Betty Appelboom
