Carlton Hotel
In the 1930s the Carlton was one of Amsterdam's more prestigious hotels. During the war years, the hotel was in use as a Luftgaukommando of the German occupation forces.
Het Carlton Hotel in Amsterdam, rond 1940
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Address: Vijzelstraat 2-14, te Amsterdam.[1]
As one of Amsterdam's more prestigious hotels in the 1930s, the Carlton was the setting for countless concerts, parties, meetings, bridge and chess competitions.[2]
During the war years, the Carlton was used as a Luftgaukommando by the Germans.[3] On the night of 26-27 April 1943, a plane crashed right behind the Carlton in Reguliersdwarsstraat. The hotel and many nearby buildings were destroyed.[4] Anne writes about this in het diary.[5]
Footnotes
- ^ Algemeen Adresboek voor de stad Amsterdam 1938, p. 282. Also see: Wikipedia: Carlton Hotel (Amsterdam).
- ^ "Bridge-wedstrijd", Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad, 12 mei 1933; "Cab Calloway in het Carlton-Hotel", De Telegraaf, 31 maart 1934 (avondeditie); "V.V.V. Amsterdam", De Tijd, 10 november 1938; "Frans chanson in Carlton", Het Volk, 18 maart 1940.
- ^ NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies: Online inventaris Wehrmachtbefehlhaber in den Niederlanden (toegang 001), onder inv. nr. 5.1; Bianca Stigter, Atlas van een bezette stad: Amsterdam 1940-1945, Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, 2019, p. 202-202.
- ^ J.F.M. den Boer en S. Duparc (samenst.), Kroniek van Amsterdam over de jaren 1940-1945, Amsterdam: De Bussy, 1948, p. 98.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 27 April 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.