National Holocaust Museum

The Nationaal Holocaust Museum is the first Dutch museum dedicated entirely to the Holocaust in the Netherlands. A first version opened in 2016, with the fully renovated museum reopening in 2024 in the former Reformed teachers' college (Hervormde Kweekschool) opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg. Both buildings carry heavy history: in 1942-43 the Schouwburg was a Nazi deportation assembly point, while Jewish children were separated and held across the street. With the resistance led by director Henriette Pimentel and Walter Suskind, between 600 and 1,100 children were smuggled out through the Kweekschool. The permanent exhibition uses personal objects, photographs and testimony to document the persecution of the some 102,000 Dutch Jews who were murdered. It is part of the Joods Cultureel Kwartier alongside the Portuguese Synagogue and Jewish Historical Museum.