Walk through the neighborhood with Daan Schuurmans in the Centrum-Oost episode in the series ‘The Story of the Netherlands – Amsterdam’.
This pod walk is about the Jewish history of this neighborhood, with an emphasis on the former Jewish Quarter, the former Vlooienburg, Rapenburg and Uilenburg. You will learn how this neighborhood became a truly Jewish neighborhood, and how that came to an end with the Second World War. The walk takes you past the Portuguese Synagogue, the Great Sjoel and the three synagogues attached to it (now the Jewish Museum). Via the monument for Jewish Resistance and behind the town hall you walk to the statue of Spinoza, to Huis De Pinto and through the Jodenbreestraat further into the Plantagebuurt. Of course the walk takes you past the Auschwitz monument, the Dokwerker and the Holocaust monument and more. Along the way, Daan will show you where you can still find traces of and stories about the Jewish neighborhood in buildings and monuments.
The pod walk is part of the four-part NTR series ‘The Story of the Netherlands-Amsterdam. Narrator Daan Schuurmans takes the viewer through 750 years of the capital’s history. The ‘The Story of the Netherlands – Amsterdam’ pod walks are 11 GPS-controlled audio tours that let you experience the stories of the city on location. From the medieval origins of Amsterdam to the founding of the VOC and the creation of the canal belt. Download the free podwalks app ‘The Story of the Netherlands’ in the App Store or Play Store. And walk through history with Daan Schuurmans.