Hollandsche Schouwburg
The Hollandsche Schouwburg theatre served as a gathering place for arrested Jews during the German occupation before their deportation to Westerbork transit camp and Vught concentration camp.
Located at Plantage Middenlaan 24, in Amsterdam.[1]
Built in 1892 as Artis Schouwburg and renamed Hollandsche Schouwburg after two years.[2] As a result of the measure banning non-Jews and Jews from the same theatres, from June 1941 only Jews were allowed to perform in the building for a Jewish audience and it was renamed the Joodsche Schouwburg.[2]
According to Anne's diary, there was a 'promotion' of the Jewish Lyceum at the Jewish Theatre on 3 July 1942.[3]
From July 1942 to November 1943, the theatre served as an assembly point during the deportation of Jews to Westerbork transit camp and Vught concentration camp.[4] Administrative handling and further care was in the hands of staff of the Jewish Council.[5]
Footnotes
- ^ Het Joodsch Weekblad, 16 juli 1943.
- a, b See: Joods Cultureel Kwartier: Een theater in plantage: De Hollandsche Schouwburg 1891-1942.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 5 July 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
- ^ See: Joods Cultureel Kwartier: De Hollandsche Schouwburg als deportatieplaats; Frank van Vree, Hetty Berg, and David Duindam (eds.), Site of deportation, site of memory. The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg and the Holocaust, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, cop. 2018.
- ^ H. Wielek, De oorlog die Hitler won, Amsterdam: Amsterdamsche Boek- en Courantmaatschappij, 1947, p. 157-161.
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