Amsterdam Heritage Walk: Resistance Stories
210 min
3.8 km
14 stops
About this tour
Amsterdam's wartime resistance has names and street numbers. The walk starts at Jonas Daniël Meijerplein, where the Dockworker statue marks the February Strike of 1941, then the Hollandsche Schouwburg, the former theatre that became a holding place from July 1942. Self-guided in the StepQuests app: GPS between stops, stories you read on your phone.
Itinerary
14 guided stops on this route
Jonas Daniël Meijerplein
The Jonas Daniel Meijerplein lay at the heart of Amsterdam's Jewish quarter. In February 1941, during the first large round-up, hundreds of Jewish men were arr…
Hollandsche Schouwburg
From July 1942 the occupiers used it as an assembly point for Jews before they were sent to Westerbork and the camps. Walter Süskind, who ran the administratio…
The Crèche at Plantage Middenlaan 31-33
Opposite the Schouwburg was a creche. Hundreds of Jewish children were smuggled out from here, partly via Johan van Hulst's teacher training college. Director…
Quiz: The Resistance Museum
The Resistance Museum on Plantage Kerklaan shows the hard choices people faced under occupation. A small group was active in the resistance, but a far larger c…
Plantage Kerklaan 36-38
On 27 March 1943 a resistance group attacked the population register on Plantage Kerklaan and set it on fire. That made forged identity papers harder to check.…
Wertheimpark
In the Wertheimpark lies Jan Wolkers' Auschwitz memorial, with the words Never again Auschwitz. In the Netherlands a large part of the Jewish population was mu…
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