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A visitor examines pencill marks measuring the grwoth of Anne and Margot Frank in what used to be their parents' room at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 24, 2016. (Photo Collection Anne Frank House)

With no tourists in Amsterdam, locals are discovering the Anne Frank House

The overall number of visitors to the museum is a fraction of its pre-coronavirus self, but Dutch residents have nearly tripled their attendance in absolute numbers.

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 30, 2020 12:11 pm

The Amsterdam building that used to house the Reform Seminary and children's detainment facility where Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk helped saved hundreds of Jewish children. (Luuk Kramer/Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam)

Dutch-Jewish WWII hero Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk, who saved hundreds of children, dies at 96

At 17, she smuggled hundreds of Jewish children to safety from under the noses of Nazi guards and local police.

June 16, 2020 8:55 am

Amsterdam to contribute $5.6 million for Holocaust museum makeover

The donation comes at a time when cultural institutions are seeing cutbacks, the director of the city’s Jewish Cultural Quarter said.

June 5, 2020 10:40 am

Thousands of protesters defying social distancing measures at a protest over the death of George Floyd on Dam Square in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on June 1, 2020. (Robin Utrecht/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dutch chief rabbi slams Amsterdam mayor for ignoring social distancing at mass Black Lives Matter protest

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 2, 2020 11:43 am

A car belonging to the Dutch security forces guarding the Maimonides and Rosj Pina Jewish schools in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Nov. 25, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Jewish schools have reopened in the Netherlands, but some worry that their security is compromised

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 28, 2020 6:02 pm

Dani Rotstein stands next to a monumnet commemorating the Jews of Palma de Mallorca, Spain on Feb. 13, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

In Europe, budding Jewish tourism businesses are teetering on the brink of closure because of COVID-19

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 22, 2020 3:57 pm

The interior of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Bas de Brouwer)

Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter is getting ready to reopen, but some wonder if it will ever be the same

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 19, 2020 3:05 pm

Pedestrians walking outside the Jewish Museum of Munich on March 24, 2007. (Wikimedia Commons/Maximilian Dörrbecker)

Jewish museums in Munich and Vienna announce plans to reopen this month

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 7, 2020 4:06 pm

Meijer and Tedje van der Sluis during filming in Amsterdam of a 2018 documentary film about their marriage. (Merlijn Doomernik)

Tedje van der Sluis, 93, Auschwitz survivor whose happy marriage was subject of Dutch film

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 28, 2020 5:34 pm

Pianist Marc Wielart and violinist Eduardo Paredes Crespo playing Israel's national anthem at the Concergebouw hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in April 2020. (Courtesy of Barry Mehler)

Israel’s Independence Day gets first celebration at the Dutch royal concert hall — without a crowd

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 28, 2020 4:42 pm

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