Joods Historisch Museum

Description from wikipedia

dedicated to Jewish history, culture and religion, in the Netherlands and worldwide. It is the only museum in the Netherlands dedicated to Jewish history. A seven-year renovation of the museum was recently completed (2007). The museum was recognized in 1989 when it received the Council of Europe Museum Prize, awarded for a combination of the presentation of the collection and the outward (...) Read more

Description from yahoo

The original Jewish museum was set up in 1932 in a small room at Weigh House but during the 1940 German invasion, most of the artifacts were confiscated and destroyed. In 1955 the Joods Historisch Museum was re-opened with only one-fifth of the original collection, so private collectors and even the general public came forward with contributions to add to the collection. The enlarged museum was shifted to the Ashkenazi synagogue Read more

Description from frommers

In the heart of what was once Amsterdam's thriving Jewish Quarter, this museum occupies a restored Ashkenazi synagogue complex. Its cluster of four synagogues -- the Grote Synagoge (1671), Obbene Sjoel (1685), Dritt Sjoel (1700-78), and Nieuwe Synagoge (1752) -- survived the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam during World War II more or less intact. In 1987, they became home to a collection of Read more

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