Vlooienburg or Vloonburg was a filled-in island in the Amstel river on the site of the Stopera in Amsterdam. In the seventeenth century, a lively migrant neighborhood emerged here with timber traders,
Drawing of the interior of the Talmud Torah at Houtgracht (1664), demolished in 1931
Archeologists at Waterlooplein (1981)
The history of the Jews in Amsterdam focuses on the historical center of the Dutch Jewish community, comprising both Portuguese Jews originally from both Spain and Portugal and Ashkenazi Jews, origina
Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue, modeled after the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, Amsterdam 1695 by Romeyn de Hooghe
Statue of Anne Frank, by Mari Andriessen, outside the Westerkerk in Amsterdam.