The Amsterdam City Council has voted to rent the former Jewish Theatre in this city to the State of Israel for the nominal rent of one Dutch guilder for the next 49 years. The theatre will be converted and will become a center for Israel art and commercial expositions.
The building was used by the Nazis during the occupation to imprison, at one time or another, some 70,000 Dutch Jews. From here they were loaded on transports bound for various Nazi death camps. When the building is converted, at an estimated cost of about $140,000, it will include a special room commemorated to the memory of the martyred Dutch Jews. An eternal light will be kept lit in the room.
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