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Inscribed on each of these 102,000 alphabetically ordered bricks is a name, date of birth and age at death of a victim. A separate wall called 1000 Names Wall of 1,000 bricks at the southern entrance was left blank to accommodate additional names of victims found later.
The Co-cathedral Basilica of Saint Nicholas (Dutch: Co-kathedrale Basiliek van de Heilige Nicolaas) is located in the Old Centre district of Amsterdam, Netherlands, very close to Amsterdam's main railway station. St, Nicholas is the patron saint of both the church and the city of Amsterdam. The basilica is the city's primary Roman Catholic ...
The 'official' museums of Amsterdam actually do not exist. The name is a misleading translation of the unofficial name of an unincorporated meeting club of mostly government subsidized museums who co-ordinate their marketing to monopolize further government subsidies for city marketing and government assistance.
Amsterdam [3] Many of the museums in Amsterdam are members of the Dutch Museum Association as well as the Official Museums of Amsterdam. Additionally, many of these museums are involved in the Museumkaart initiative of the Dutch Museum Association. Allard Pierson Museum; Amsterdam Museum; Anne Frank House; Special collections; Bijbels Museum ...
They not only founded their own synagogues but had a strong influence on the 'Amsterdam dialect' adding a large Yiddish local vocabulary. [141] Despite an absence of an official Jewish ghetto, most Jews preferred to live in the eastern part, which used to be the centre of medieval Amsterdam. The main street of this Jewish neighbourhood was ...
The Resistance Museum (Dutch: Verzetsmuseum) is a museum located in the Plantage neighbourhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [1] The Dutch Resistance Museum, chosen [by whom?] as the best historical museum of the Netherlands, [2] aims to tell the story of the Dutch people in World War II.
The Government of Amsterdam consists of several territorial and functional forms of local and regional government. The principal form of government is the municipality of Amsterdam , Netherlands. The municipality's territory covers the city of Amsterdam as well as a number of small towns.
Pride Amsterdam or Amsterdam Pride, also known as the Amsterdam Gay Pride, is a citywide queer-festival held annually at the center of Amsterdam, Netherlands during the first weekend of August. The festival attracts several hundred-thousand visitors each year and is one of the largest publicly held annual events in the country.