Jewish Quarter & Wartime Amsterdam Tour

Amsterdam was once called “the Jerusalem of the West’’ by Sephardi jews who fled Portugal in the 1400s, and later gained the Yiddish nickname ‘Mokum’ from the Ashkenazi community in the 1800s. For almost 350 years Amsterdam was a safe haven for the Jewish community until the Nazi occupation in 1940 began. Over the course of this walking tour we will visit sites and monuments that express the prosperity, resistance, tragedy and resilience of Amsterdam’s Jewish community from the pre to post war period. Including visits to the Portuguese Synagogue, the Holocaust Name Monument and the Hollandse Schouwburg. This private tour gives you a well rounded view of the history of the Jewish community in Amsterdam, and can be customized depending on your interests. Tickets for Portuguese Synagogue not included. Walk to Anne Frank House can be added but tickets for museum not included.

- Waterlooplein Flea Market (except Sundays and rainy days) - Spinoza Monument - Jewish Resistance Monument - Rembrandt House - South Church - House de Pinto - Moses & Aaron Church - Portuguese Synagogue (except Saturdays & religious holidays) - Dokwerker Statue - National Holocaust Name Monument - Anne Frank Tree - Wertheim Park - Auschwitz Monument - Hollandse Schouwburg