National Holocaust Museum

The National Holocaust Museum is the first museum of its kind in the Netherlands, which opened in 2016 in two pre-war buildings at Plantage Middenlaan Street, an old Jewish quarter. The institution was established to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and their memories.

The former The Hollandsche Schouwburg theater turned the Nazis into a prison and deportation center. Today, it is a monument to 104,000 Jewish victims murdered during the siege.

The second building, Hervormde Kweekschool, once the Teacher Training College, was used by resistance workers during World War II to remove about 600 children from captivity and move them to relatively safe hiding places. Today, temporary exhibitions are held at this historic site. On the first floor of Hervormde there is an exhibition dedicated to the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands during World War II.