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This page is a list of notable Dutch Jews, ... Name Notability References Samuel Goudsmit (1902-1978) physicist [citation needed] Hajo Meyer (1924-2014) physicist
Most Dutch Jews are Ashkenazi Jews but some are Sephardi Jews. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. Dutch Jews by ...
The history of the Jews in the Netherlands largely dates to the late 16th century and 17th century, when Sephardic Jews from Portugal and Spain began to settle in Amsterdam and a few other Dutch cities, [2] [3] because the Netherlands was an unusual center of religious tolerance.
At the former Westerbork transit camp (Dutch: Kamp Westerbork) in Hooghalen, Drenthe, there is the 102,000 Stones Monument (Dutch: De 102.000 stenen), with a stone without a name for each victim. [6] On the internet a searchable database of all Dutch Jewish victims is available as Joods Monument (Jewish Monument). [7]
After the Dutch in Brazil appealed to Holland for craftsmen of all kinds, many Jews went to Brazil; about 600 Jews left Amsterdam in 1642, accompanied by two distinguished scholars — Isaac Aboab da Fonseca and Moses Raphael de Aguilar. In the struggle between Holland and Portugal for the possession of Brazil, the Dutch were supported by the Jews.
Name Born Died Age Ethnicity Notability Estella Agsteribbe: April 6, 1909: September 17, 1943: 34 Jewish Gymnast. Member of the Gold medal-winning Dutch gymnastics team at the 1928 Summer Olympics. [1] Heinz Alt: 1922: January 6, 1945: 22 or 23 Jewish Composer. Deported from Theresienstadt concentration camp to Auschwitz on September 28, 1944 ...
The first Ashkenazim, Jews from Central and Eastern Europe, who arrived in Amsterdam were refugees from the Chmielnicki Uprising in Poland and the Thirty Years War.Their numbers soon swelled, eventually outnumbering the Sephardic Jews at the end of the 17th century; by 1674, some 5,000 Ashkenazi Jews were living in Amsterdam, while 2,500 Sephardic Jews called Amsterdam their home. [12]
Apart from France, established Jewish populations exist in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland. With the original medieval populations wiped out by the Black Death and the pogroms that followed it, the current Dutch and Belgian communities originate in the Jewish expulsion from Spain and Portugal, while a Swiss community was only ...